The Art of Thinking Clearly

My first book about cognitive biases. Unfortunately, my friend borrowed it and lost it lol. We haven't talked since.

funny and digestible while also being incredibly informative

Slow and steady wins the race

I took way too long to finish reading this book. But nonetheless, every page of it was worth it. It's a great book. I personally am very interested in these sorts of books where it is discussed how our thinking works. The chapters touched on a lot of topics that I never thought of and it feels like reading this book activated many new ways of thinking in my mind.

Anyways, it's cold, my hands are frozen, and I don't want to type much. I got a little bored sometimes but the book still managed to get back my attention pretty quickly. (Plus, I'm a very slow reader so that's most probably the reason why it took me this long to read it.) Honestly, for anyone interested in human psychology, this book is perfect.

1. It's like Dobelli truly (consciously or unconsciously- it's not entirely clear) did not consider their audience to extend beyond cishet, college-educated men. While I found several of the initial theories presented interesting, Dobelli's snide side remarks grounded in 1960s western gender values + examples usually made around the stock market and business investment + his massive fan girling of Taleb all point to an inability to communicate one's ideas to those outside of one's own discourse community.
   
   2. Several of the theories Dobelli presents, including the marshmallow experiment and the decision fatigue theory have been disproven, casting a shadow on all the other theories presented.
   
   3. This guy just really loves stocks. Sir, these ideas seem to apply to contexts more interesting and perhaps much more important than stocks.

Gdybym przeczytał to w liceum - pewnie byłoby to olśnienie, wow, tyle mądrości. Niestety, od tego czasu przeczytałem kilka innych książek i ta nie robi wrażenia. Płytka i pobieżna.

Lots of rehashed content from original thinkers (Ariely, Kahneman, Tversky, Taleb, etc.) wrapped up into easy-to-digest chapters with interesting illustrative anecdotes. Although not original in terms of content, it is well-delivered, feels coherent and, if one had not already been exposed to such concepts, would serve as a decent introduction or overview.

Good wrap-up on cognitive errors and shortcuts.

Very solid book that breaks down all the different biases that we may (or may not) use in our daily conversations and interactions.

Rolf does a fantastic job at explaining each bias and gives clear cut examples. Each chapter is focused on one bias and he keeps it descriptive yet brief as to not bore you to death.