The Art of Thinking Clearly: A Guide to Better Decision-Making by Rolf Dobelli

Taylor Maier: I don’t usually write reviews with such an exaggerated title, but I would give this book 10 stars if I could. Easy to read, captivating, and potentially life-changing. Understand yourself and think your way to a brighter future.

United States on Nov 13, 2023

Jomine: List many of the thinking fallacies

India on Nov 13, 2023

LUis Vega: Extremely well thought through, this book walks you through many biases that negatively affect our day to day decisions. Highly recommended. Also by the same author THE ART OF THE GOOD LIFE, highly recommended too.

United States on Oct 31, 2023

GeorgeGeorge: Great insight on taking the time to think through situations and offers practical ways to approach the world.

United States on Sep 21, 2023

Kindle Customer: Talked about a lot of cognitive errors we tend to make in daily decision making and how they can affect us. Learning about the errors themselves isnt really something I can use. But i have a better understanding now on when to slow down and reflect on a choice vs when to use intuition instead.

Cool read

United Kingdom on Sep 18, 2023

Priyanka: Good

India on Aug 11, 2023

AARNA GRAPHICS: Nice

India on Jun 26, 2023

Ian Mann: 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 “theory of irrationality that states: thinking is in itself not pure, but prone to error.” 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 “systematically err in the same direction.” 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, “to 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 choosing… In situations where the consequences are small I forget about rational optimisation and let my intuition take over.”
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United States on Apr 12, 2017

Unitive News Reporter: Many know that Wikipedia has a "mistake" list of potential cognitive errors and biases that links to nearly infinite mistakes these poor brains can make! This is like the little book of 100 things that can go right vs. the 2,000 page book of clinical maladies that can descend upon us each unsuspecting day.

This read is truly an eye-opening joy ride! Even though the author claims happiness is genetic and not to expect too much, hey, get this, it's enlightening AND entertaining! How is it better than the plethora of error books and self help sites out there, as well as Wiki's extensive list? Wow, no comparison. Dobelli uses short, punchy "chapters" that are almost just a few paragraphs to explain, define, exemplify and illustrate each cognitive trap, error and bias-- astonishing. The humor is dry but everywhere, especially his many "aha" insights about how these errors helped us keep from being killed as cave folk but do us disservice now. He wryly shares that the guy who questioned the herd mentality probably didn't contribute to the gene pool if he did so while all his buddies were running from a lion! This author's sense of humor is too contagious.

As you get...

United States on May 14, 2013

WA: Wer schon auf die englische Ausgabe von Dobellis Büchern  Die Kunst des klaren Denkens  und  Die Kunst des klugen Handelns  gewartet hat, wird hier eine positive und eine negative Überraschung erleben. Zuerst die positive: Obwohl der Titel erwarten lässt, dass nur der erste Band auf Englisch vorgelegt wird, handelt es sich um alle beide in einer leicht umgestalteten Anordnung. Aus den ursprünglich zweimal 52 Kapiteln der Original-Ausgaben wurde ein einziges Buch mit 99 Kapiteln.
Die negative Überraschung bestand für mich darin, dass die Illustrationen fehlen, die in den deutschen Büchern jedes Kapitel einleiten und die Texte zugleich veranschaulichen und auflockern.

Nicht geändert hat sich, dass das Buch für jeden Leser interessante und überraschende Denkanstöße liefert. Eine große Zahl von Entdeckungen der Psychologie, die nur nach und nach ihren Weg ins Bewusstsein einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit finden, wird knapp und einprägsam vermittelt. Jedesmal wird auch der wissenschaftlich etablierte Fachbegriff genannt, so dass es dem interessierten Leser leichtgemacht wird, sich noch anhand weiterer Quellen damit...

Germany on Mar 23, 2013