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The Art of Thinking Clearly
- 384 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 2013
- 10 editions
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1 About this book
The Art of Thinking Clearly, by the Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli, describes ninety-nine common errors of thinking in as many short chapters. Each takes one, such as survivorship bias, the sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, social proof or authority bias, explains it with a few examples, and suggests how to guard against it. The chapters began as weekly newspaper columns in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and the English edition appeared in 2013.
- Psychology
- Sciences cognitives
- Reasoning
- Cognition
- Decision making
- Aspects psychologiques
- Thought and thinking
- Theory of Knowledge
2 What to expect
A catalog of ninety-nine thinking errors, from survivorship bias to the sunk cost fallacy, in chapters of two or three pages each. Every chapter names a bias, gives an anecdote or two and draws a rule of thumb from it, so it is a book to dip into, not to read straight through. It is brisk and simplified, drawn from other writers' research, and the brevity leaves little room for nuance.
Good for readers who want: cognitive biases explained, better decisions, and very short chapters.
3 About Rolf Dobelli
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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