Review: The Art of Thinking Clearly

The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


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The Art of thinking Clearly

Summary:

This book is a collection of all the different biases and fallacies (~100) that our little lizard brains are affected by on a day-to-day basis. They may be affecting you in your business, in office, in your personal life etc. The book is broken in little chapters (~100) with personal anecdotes as well as scientific studies on each effect or bias.

Overall, I really loved this book. This is something that you just can't begin to comprehend in one sitting .. this is just too much knowledge, so many effects and biases. This is more like a guidebook with 100 chapters. This is something that you keep picking up and just a read a single chapter, whenever you have time. And I am sure, you will learn something new.

Another thing, the only way we can begin to think clearly if we are aware of these biases. Nobody can remove them completely from their life, however hard we try but it is fun to know these and have that aha! moment.

Key Takeaways:

0. This is a very very dense book. People have written long blog posts and proper books on a single chapter here. Hence this book is impossible to summarize in ideas.

1. But, the key takeaway is -> Everybody is human. Our lives are a hunter-gatherer mind stuck in a post modern overly complicated world. We are riddled with biases and fallacies and can't remove them from life. Please read the book to know about some of these and maybe, maybe it will change you in some way.