Better viewed as a large collection of interesting thought puzzles and strange observations about the brain and the way we use information, rather than a way to train your brain. I was recommended this book to try and help me better as a writer and I can't really imagine why since the book is more focused on everyday life and the way that people are influenced rather than the personal journey of one's brain and what they can do to notice when they're being influenced.

Of course, the flip side of that coin is that the world is too vast and unpredictable to have a field guide for every moment, as the book is quick to point out.

The best way I can sum it up is the book was not at all what I thought it was going to be and I still came away liking it.

One note: there are a lot of moments in the book where Kahneman will suggest a scenario or thought problem and disect why your initial reaction might be X, when Y should be considered. There's probably about 100+ when the dust is settled across 500 pages, and most of them are good, but if you should have a disconnect where you manage to defeat the logic puzzle before he can explain it, you may have a pitfall where you go back trying to re-read it, insisting you didn't understand it right the first time, otherwise why would there be a lesson? These instances are few and far between (for me) but they can take you out of it.