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A great pinpoint on errors we make in work and personal life, and how we can learn to avoid those and discern between what’s bias and what’s not. Zeigarnik effect: To successfully run projects, even if you have more than one going on, you need to clear your head. The Zeigarnik effect explains that once we complete a task it gets erased from our memory. But while we’re on the task, we’re exhausted and worried. Listing what needs to get done can help. A good plan of action can be enough to keep your sanity and walk you through the steps without feeling overburdened. So, when facing a challenging project, outline the main things to do on a piece of paper or an app. To combat the illusion of control, be wary of your predictions. Rather than worrying about what you can’t control, focus only on what you know that you can. Lesson 2: You use availability and comparison to determine value rather than looking at actual pros and cons. If you're looking for a book to help you get ahead, or improve you as a human being, don't look here; but if like me, you want to see how a book of such reputation with no scientific ground, or even much common sense, can be so popular among some people, get this book and start reading. If you want to make improvements in your life, focusing on what not to do should be your go-to tactic. Want to have more money? Start spending less. You don’t necessarily have to start businesses or learn complicated investing strategies. Do, or should I say stop doing part of the things you’re doing now. This is the easiest way to rid yourself of undesired negative behaviors. Notable Quotes:
Like it or not, our brains are a mishmash of shortcuts and rules-of-thumb that helped our ancient ancestors avoid becoming lion lunch and stay alive long enough to pass on these traits to posterity. The last thinking concept in the book promotes exactly this counterintuitive approach – via negativa. Or focus on not doing things in English. Netflix. Perhaps that is the easiest way to understand this. With its abundance of choices, we tend to spend as much time in finding something as we do in actually watching it. a serious examination of the faulty reasoning that leads to repeated mistakes by individuals, businesses, and nations…In this fascinating book, Dobelli does not offer a recipe for happiness but a well-considered treatise on avoiding ‘self-induced unhappiness.’” (Booklist (starred review))People simply link any problem to their field. As the author writes, “Surgeons want to solve almost every medical problem with a scalpel, even if their patients could be treated with less invasive methods.” Rolf Dobelli’s book, The Art of Thinking Clearly, is a compendium of systematic errors in decision making. While the list of fallacies is not complete, it’s a great launching pad into the best of what others have already figured out. This is because we need information to form meaningful stories before it makes sense to us; conversely, we are repelled by abstract details. In today’s world we face limitless choices about products and lifestyle. Be it finding the right wine or the best university, you are bombarded with options. For most people it’s difficult or even impossible to manage this cornucopia. Not all of the 99 cognitive biases it outlines will be applicable to your life. They weren’t to mine either.
If you want to break through these biases of scarcity and comparison, focus on the value of items. When you see something is 30% off or “only while supplies last,” think only about the costs and benefits of purchasing the item. Lesson 3: Too many options to choose from makes it hard to make choices.The confusion between risk and uncertainty. Risk is when you can predict the probability of various outcomes. Uncertainty is when those probabilities are totally unknown. We can calculate risk and make informed decisions about it; we cannot do the same with uncertainty. Finally, this is 2021, you know all those fallacies already. If you want more in-depth stuff, it's out there. And if you want this book, you'll get the some content on wikipedia.
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