You think you know why you believe what you believe. You probably do not.

Not because you are careless or unintelligent—but because the part of your mind doing most of the work is fast, automatic, and largely invisible to you. It forms judgments before you are aware of them, fills in gaps with whatever is most available, and produces confident outputs without flagging what it missed. And here is the uncomfortable part: learning about this does not reliably fix it.

In this episode, Shawn and Claire open Block Two — How We Think — with the most practically disruptive idea in modern psychology. Drawing on Daniel Kahneman's and Amos Tversky's decades of research, they walk through the architecture of System 1 and System 2 thinking—not as a memorizable list of named errors, but as a philosophical framework for understanding why th ...