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The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli (Author)

[DharmendraRaiMindMap]

Excellent book, excellent author, excellent communicator !

[amerrashed]

Summary:
Outcome bias: We always focus on the outcomes but not on the process behind that outcomes!
- Sunk cost fallacy (cognitive, decision error): non recoverable cost should not play a role anymore, so shouldn't be accounted or to continue on what's hurting you!
- crowding out effect (social error): bringing in an incentive or monetary system driven by internal or social motivation might devalue our relationships.
- focus on negative knowledge of not to do those mistakes (cognitive errors) & try to eliminate them. Then the upside will take care of itself!

[krushnasubudhi]

Those who are saying its a plagiarism, must first read the book. He quoted every research and given credit to all researcher. More importantly many great researcher comes up with different analysis and theories, would it be possible for us to read everything. This is a nice all-in-one book, which provides summary of all the great work done

[sarangsultan]

'The Art of Thinking Clearly' changed my life upto the eternity.

[billgarza-dbhe]

I liked this clip. I think the last 1.5 minutes says it all. Funny thing is I've been actually doing this for awhile. Couple years ago I thought, I'll work on removing or minimizing the toxins in my life, I figured that would meet my objectives in a shorter more direct path. Thinking clearly is tough work, but with practice, you get better at it. It's changed my life and I've never looked back.

[subramanyam]

One of the best talks I have ever heard. Can't wait to read the whole book. Amazing!

[shauryaagarwal]

This book should be the part of school syllabus. This is what people do throughout their life and fail to even notice

[KM_Zitha]

Very fascinating. Motivation crowding is quite interesting

[TheMichael]

he did not plagiarize Taleb, he acknowledges every input he got from Talab

[FLEXYGAMER]

I have never read a book before, but thid author is just awesome. I love the way he talks, expresses his ideas and more than that, I love his bokk "The Art of thinking clearly. I'm starting from now, to read his book and i would really like to have more suggestions about his books.

[mehmood]

Very effective book for everyone. All chapters are full of knowledge which was available to us but not known to us before read the book.

[towardsjannah]

This reminds me something from Quran:
"DO not grief over what you lost"

[pwerlve]

"a red 500-Euro stilleto shoe energetically greeted him at home after the lecture"

[Matt-wgxn]

Always thought sunk-cost fallacy was heavily oversimplified. Yes you spent $20 already on movie tickets so it's a sunk cost. BUT, there is also the future cost of if you do want to go see that movie some other time you'll have to spend another $20.

Or if you're close to the peak of a mountain you might prefer turning around but the effort to re-climb the whole mountain another time is much higher than simply sticking to it this time.

[thedragon]

You could always resell the movie tickets so it's not necessarily completely lost money.

[dennishoe]

Focus alot on the realistic and negative angle.

[samcrosswords]

My favourite book ever next to "Outliers" and "The blink" if you're interested.

[tipple]

A quite brilliant book! Highly readable, with short, concise, illuminating examples of everyday critical thinking. Totally recommended.

[nicholasc.]

thanks so much you made a lot of sense

[debadiptobiswas]

I didn't realise it was not a TED talk lol