Book Club: Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish, Part 4 - Strategies & Frameworks For Decision Making

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club, where we explore the insights, frameworks, strategies and secrets of books that will improve your thinking, elevate your leadership, give you courage and confidence and help you think clearer.

This week we're reading part 4 of Clear Thinking by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish.

It's nearly 100 pages of insight, strategies and signals for better decision making.

The decision is the outcome of the process. There are 4 stages -

1. Defining the problem.
2. Exploring possible solutions
3. Evaluating the options
4. executing the best one

"When the stakes are low, inaction hurts you more than speed. The opposite is true when the stakes are high."

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish
0:50 The Decision Making Process
2:57 Rules And Safeguards
3:37 When The Stakes Are Low
5:36 Define The Problem
14:04 Get Real, Get With Reality
17:39 Are You A Chef Or Line Cook?
21:30 Opportunity Cost
28:20 Define The Most Important Part
30:15 Margins Of Safety

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Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish?

Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets.

Here’s what you can expect:

🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight.

🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them.

🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire.

🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing.

🤯 AI says Shane Parrish’s “Clear Thinking” is more than a book; it’s a catalyst for change. It’s an essential read for anyone looking to live a more deliberate and fulfilling life. The algorithm recommends you dive into this book, then you’ll emerge from the waters with a clearer, more focused mind ready to tackle the world’s complexities. We don’t always agree with AI, but we’ll take that.

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About Thinking On Paper:

Jeremy is a futurist, writer, and nexus thinker . He loves books.

Mark is a creative writer, futurist thinker and trainee Nexus thinker. He loves books too.

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