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Good aspect! I know lots of mathematicians and excellent, "rational" engineers who are terrible investors and tend to go in dead ends with their excellent analy
by patkai 12y ago
Good aspect! I know lots of mathematicians and excellent, "rational" engineers who are terrible investors and tend to go in dead ends with their excellent analysis. Our gut is smarter than we think!
- read 12y agoPsychology distinguishes rationality and intelligence as two separate concepts. You can be highly intelligent but not very rational.
- rkrzr 12y agoThanks for pointing this out. Even though I read Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow", I did not truly understand that intelligence and rationality are orthogonal concepts. I've always implicitly assumed that intelligence is strongly correlated with rationality, but it seems there is a mild correlation at best: " it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence"[0] [0]http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rationality-versus-intelligence http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rationality-vers...
- ekm2 12y agoHence the value of meditation.[1] [1]. http://www.alternet.org/story/152011/how_meditation_makes_you_more_rational http://www.alternet.org/story/152011/how_meditation_makes_yo...