Clear Thinking | PART-1 | Author by Shane Parrish | Book Reading 📖

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish

However, not much will alter the course of your journey in life or business as strive to think rationally. But fewer of us see opportunities to think at all. In the most crucial moments, you may think that your mind is clear. But when the whistle blows, chances are you won't think. While your future interactions will only pull you farther away from the desire of love, drive to belong, vision success and bloom wealth in triumph. As Farnam Street founder Shane Parrish sees it, we need to not only get better at identifying these opportunities for what they are but also by using our cognitive abilities themselves in service of the lives we want.

With Clear Thinking, you have the tools to identify touchpoints that could change your path and re-train how you interact with the critical moment of time between stimulus and response. We exist in the story of our lives, as Parrish demonstrates. But the reality is - most of us are coasting. If we don't step in, our behavior will always take the path of least effort thanks to hardwired biases instilled by biology and constructed through evolution and culture. At my lowest, I am triggered in the moment only to respond — too stupid to know that this is a chance where thinking could occur. The best part is that we identify these points for what they are and utilize the maximum of our cerebral cortex and acumen.

Parrish provides the missing link between behavioral science and tangible impacts via stories, mental models, + more. The result is an essential playbook for optimizing decision-making, driving innovation and growth, and living a more mindful life.

Part 1. The Enemies of Clear Thinking

1.1 Thinking Badly—or Not Thinking at All?
1.2 The Emotion Default
1.3 The Ego Default
1.4 The Social Default
1.5 The Inertia Default
1.6 Default to Clarity