These are two different pathways through the brain that engage different brain areas and functions. When you do that, your muscles will tense slightly, your pupils will dilate and your heart rate will even increase as you put physical effort into the work (I’ll save you the trouble, it’s 442). Now, if you try and actually solve the problem you will start using an entirely different set of pathways in your brain – you’ll be using your slow system, ‘system 2’. That’s your system 1 or ‘fast thinking’ doing that. You’ll recognise it as a maths problem and as a multiplication and you’ll probably gauge it as being moderately difficult but not outside your capabilities to solve. Let’s say you see a maths problem like… 13 x 34Īs soon as you see that your brain will get to work and will quickly use heuristics and past experience to tell you things about it. Let’s look at why… Differences Between System 1 and System 2 You probably knew that, but if you guessed wrong then it will have been because your ‘system 1’ – your ‘fast thinking’ got in the way. ‘Moses’ didn’t take any animals on the ark (whether you’re religious or not) – it was ‘Noah’ who featured in that particular story. So what do you think? Two right? Well if that was your guess then I hate to say it… but you’re wrong. Before we do that though, here’s a little question for you: how many of each animal did Moses take on the ark? Think carefully before you answer…
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