The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

Book Overview

The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning -- essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid "cognitive errors" and make better choices in all aspects of their lives.

Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Or continued doing something you knew was bad for you? These are examples of cognitive biases,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062219693
• ISBN13: 9780062219695
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Read that Helped Me See Clearly

Very good read. Contains about 99 common fallacies, biases, illusions, and bad heuristics. It provides explanations and examples (usually business and finance related examples) for each one. I am probably going to use this for reference for a long time!

The book is certainly not to be missed by someone who wants to win over the emotional mind and long

The book gives a great insight on how the human mind thinks and all the paradoxes, effects, phenomenons that human minds get deceived by. The basics of how our emotional mind always controls us over the rational mind. There are 100 of such paradoxes Rolf Dobelli mentions in the book, I am not sure why he wanted to write exactly 100 of them in the book. Some of them are not very impressive and are just filled in there so he can do his century I am guessing. He mentions a lot of such examples he borrowed from other authors like Nassim Taleb and Robert Cialdini. The book is certainly not to be missed by someone who wants to win over the emotional mind and longs to use their rational mind.

Must read

I've read this book many times, got sick of going to the library and decided to finally purchase. Can't beat the price.