The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
In the 1960s psychologists began to examine scientifically, how people think, decide and take action. The result, explains the author of this book, Rolf Dobelli, was a โtheory of irrationality that states: thinking is in itself not pure, but prone to error.โ This, they found, was true of all people, including the highly intelligent, resulting in everyone falling into the same cognitive errors.
More interestingly, it appears we all โsystematically err in the same direction.โ If this is indeed true, it means we all make predictable mistakes. If it is true, and it appears to be, we should be able to fix at least some of them and avoid making these errors in our lives.
Dobelli has gathered 99 errors common to us all. He provides short, amusing and pithy insights into their form and causes. This has not made his life error free, he reports. However, โto make things simple, I have set myself the following rules: in situations where the possible consequences are large, I try to be as reasonable and rational as possible when choosingโฆ In situations where the consequences are small I forget about rational optimization and let my intuition take over.โ
This book is a useful compendium of error. Reading this book will certainly increase oneโs awareness of possible errors, which will lead to better decisions. To illustrate, I have chosen five errors of the Dobelliโs 99.
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