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The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
challenging
informative
medium-paced
2.0
The premise of the book is interesting -- I would truly love to think more clearly, but it goes about it a different way:
"We cannot say what brings us succes. We can pin down only what blocks or obliterates success. Eliminate the downside, the thinking errors, and the upside will take care of itself. This is all we need to know."
The author then describes 99 thinking errors over the course of the entire book (some better explained than others like the Sunk Cost Fallacy and Confirmation Bias), and while I like how brief the descriptions are to them (about 3 pages each) I'm not convinced that knowing about these errors make me think more clearly. The author also uses words "idiotic" several times, describing actions that humans do almost naturally, which doesn't recommend him to the reader well.
This book is entitled The Art of Thinking Clearly, but it isn't presented very clearly. I wouldn't recommend it.
"We cannot say what brings us succes. We can pin down only what blocks or obliterates success. Eliminate the downside, the thinking errors, and the upside will take care of itself. This is all we need to know."
The author then describes 99 thinking errors over the course of the entire book (some better explained than others like the Sunk Cost Fallacy and Confirmation Bias), and while I like how brief the descriptions are to them (about 3 pages each) I'm not convinced that knowing about these errors make me think more clearly. The author also uses words "idiotic" several times, describing actions that humans do almost naturally, which doesn't recommend him to the reader well.
This book is entitled The Art of Thinking Clearly, but it isn't presented very clearly. I wouldn't recommend it.