How To THINK Fast - like AYANOKOJI So People Think You Are Crazy

This video breaks down new research on why faster decision-making often outperforms slow deliberation, starting with a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that analyzed over 215,000 chess moves from roughly 3,600 in-person games played by professionals rated at least 2500 Elo, conducted by economists from LMU Munich, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and UniDistance Suisse. It draws an important distinction between decision time (thinking fast by choice) and time pressure (being forced to rush), citing separate archival research on 20 grandmasters and seven world chess champions showing that externally imposed time pressure increases blunders. The video then explores research on expert clinicians in urgent care settings, explaining how intuitive decision-making relies on pattern-matching to produce holistic, often solitary solutions that are verified afterward through emotional affect rather than generated through conscious comparison of options. It introduces drift-diffusion modeling as a framework for understanding how intuitive judgments form below conscious awareness, and explains that expert intuition can generate genuinely novel solutions, not just memorized templates. The video closes with practical guidance on building fast, reliable intuition through repeated, realistic exposure to the same category of situation. **Keywords** decision-making speed, chess research 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, LMU Munich, Erasmus University Rotterdam, UniDistance Suisse, time pressure vs decision time, chess blunders research, expert intuition, urgent care decision-making, pattern recognition, drift-diffusion modeling, intuitive judgment, novel solution generation, trainee vs expert cognition, emotional affect verification, cognitive science, fast thinking, expertise development, deliberate practice In this video, you'll learn why new chess research shows faster decisions often beat slower ones, the critical difference between confident speed and panicked speed, how expert intuition actually works inside the brain, and the specific type of practice that builds fast, reliable decision-making in any field.