Train Thoughts

Welcome to March! It was a warm 37 degrees when I left New Jersey and it will be a scorching 43 degrees when I make it back to Virginia. I have been sitting on a train for around an hour and a half and finally officially wrapped up my book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“. This is quite possibly my most eye-opening book I have ever read. It has challenged my way of thinking in the best way. If any of you have looked at my Instagram I have posted on my stories questions from the book and the results were very interesting. One of them was the Linda Problem and it is a tricky one. It shows just how we as people fall victim to the conjuncture fallacy because our quick thinking mind, System 1, uses context clues to falsely create an associative effect to one answer versus the other. In the Linda problem people are more likely to think that Linda being a Bank Teller and Active in the Feminist Movement rather than her just being a Bank Teller just because she is described as being “Deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice”. This means that somewhere in our minds something is making the quick association of Active in Feminist Movement to her being deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice. I urge you to ask your friends the Linda Problem and see what they say! I will guess that 4/5 of your friends will answer it wrong. I even bet some have major issues with being wrong and will not accept being wrong. This is normal and this person most likely uses their System 1 more often than their System 2, meaning they make hasty judgements and tend to accept more things as true than they care to believe. But this is one topic of the many Daniel Kahneman goes into in his book.

March is a month of change for me. I will be rolling off my project in New Jersey and will be moving on to a new project where I could be traveling to the Haag, Bangalore, and/or Houston. I also have signed my next lease on a place in Washington DC for the next year with two of my really good friends. I am excited because its near the Wharf. I also will be going to SXSW in Austin, TX with another good friend I interned with in the Summer of 2015. I am honestly so honored to be afforded the opportunities I have and I look forward to sharing them with my friends and having those moments last for a long time. Also now that I have finished my book, it is on to the next one. I am always up for suggestions of books to read so if you have a great read please comment it on this post below. For now I will be hoping into a book that was given to me by my work, “One Bullet Away, the Making of a Marine Officer” by Nathaniel Fick. Other than those few things I just recently passed by GSEC Certification from SANS and look forward to use the time I was using for that for some more personal development.

Today’s Writing Playlist: Hiking Playlist Vol. 1 from Spotify