Psychology & decisions
Systematic errors in our thinking, and why they are so hard to spot from inside.
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What does it take to succeed enormously? Not what you think, argues Malcolm Gladwell. A walk through the ideas in Outliers – 10,000 hours, birth months, opportunity and cultural legacy – and why the book's most famous rule is misread.
Why has concentrating become so hard? A walk through two books about attention – Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey – and what they say separately and together.
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund on how he makes up his mind. A walk through the ideas in Ray Dalio's Principles – written rules, radical transparency, believability weighting – and how well they survive being taken out of Bridgewater.
Why do bad arguments sound so convincing? A walk through the most common fallacies – straw man, ad hominem, false dilemma, slippery slope and the rest – with everyday examples, and with the cases where they are not fallacies at all.
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on the two ways the brain makes decisions, and the systematic errors that follow. A walk through the ideas in Thinking, Fast and Slow – and through which parts of the book have not held up.
Why is it always the thing nobody saw coming that changes everything? A walk through the ideas in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan – Mediocristan and Extremistan, the turkey problem, the narrative fallacy – and what to actually do about it.
A book that sells on its title and is really about values. A walk through the ideas in Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – choosing what to care about, responsibility versus fault, and how much of this is stoicism in new language.
Social psychologist Robert Cialdini on the few mechanisms that make people say yes. A walk through the ideas in Influence – reciprocity, commitment, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity – and how to notice when they are being used on you.
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