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The Art of Thinking Clearly
- Better Thinking, Better Decisions
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Publisher's Summary
The secrets of perfect decision-making.
Have you ever...Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Overpayed in an Ebay auction? Continued doing something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances? Backed the wrong horse?
These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better choices - whether dealing with a personal problem or a business negotiation; trying to save money or make money; working out what we do or don't want in life, and how best to get it.
An international best-seller, The Art of Thinking Clearly is essential listening for anyone with important decisions to make. It reveals, in 100 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them. Simple, clear and always surprising, this indispensable audiobook will change the way you think and transform your decision-making - at work, at home, every day.
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Unofficial textbook
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A gem
A brilliant book everyone should read. Full of extremely useful incites about the way our brains fail us.
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- Dennis
- 03-11-2021
Entertaining to listen to but
Makes claims and statements that are lacking In its own evidences. Makes it no better than the fallacies and biases it immensely tried to warn against.
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- Anonymous User
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tick of approval
great to understand people and how / why they think. great book really help me
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- Matt
- 15-01-2022
What a book!! Or audiobook to be accurate
I have no words for how interesting and intelligent this audiobook was. The reader was amazing and the book content was incredible. Eye opener.. highly recommend it to anyone ..
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- anthony
- 22-09-2020
a must read
this is the sort of book that you read once a year as a refresher.
guaranteed you will find more and more juicing morsels every time you read it.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-08-2019
Mind Explodes with every Chapter
My mind explodes with the wisdom and content in this book. I love it and highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in self help and improving their day-to-day life.
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- Kindle Customer
- 19-05-2019
why people make irrational decisions
Very good narrator
Concepts are clearly explained
Good examples
Good synthesis
A must read if you are interested in the subject and want make better decisions
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- Doug
- 26-12-2016
Everyone should read (listen to it)
A great book that is broken into small chunks that you can digest. The topic is very interesting and relevant. I highly recommend it.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-2021
Good Job
At the root of critical thinking, we need to spot rubbish and distinguish sound from irrational thinking... This book covers a hundred of the latter. More, the closing words also covers some advices regarding when critical thinking matters, must be considered, and why.
This' my first book from Rolf Dobelli and he's excellent at it. It's far from being boring as I thought when starting off.
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- Andrew Riungu
- 30-05-2020
Great book ..fantastic topic
Enjoyed listening to it very much. It had lots of well researched info and a great conclusion
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- Saminathan Suresh Nathan
- 22-05-2019
Common sense critical thinking by a novelist
I was skeptical that a story teller could right a self help book and was happily wrong.
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- mahesh
- 01-04-2018
Tremendous learning of decision making
The narrator has clear and convincing voice that keep you engrossed till the end. The knowledge is shared in form of nuggets of 4 to 5 min. audio. And this helps to revisit. All form of thinking process rational, intuitive is explained beutifully with example and minute differences.
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- Ronel
- 31-03-2014
A summary of so many books
What did you love best about The Art of Thinking Clearly?
It's a summary of Thinking fast and slow / invisible gorilla / predictably irrational: Overall quick and precise reflection of a big collection of theories.
What other book might you compare The Art of Thinking Clearly to and why?
Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Khanemann - very similar just shorter with less detail on case studies
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes
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- Judy Corstjens
- 14-10-2014
It is a list
Although I enjoyed this book it is somehow pedestrian. Dobelli makes no bones about this : he is reporting the work of others, and the book's origin is his own notebook of useful mental glitches to avoid. There are lots of things to like - the completeness of his review, listing, it seems to me, most of the fascinating examples from behavioural economics of the past four decades, and his European perspective, in contrast to the many US-based authors in this field. (Dobelli has defected to New York, but his heart is still in Switzerland, and his memories and friends are still Euro-centric). What the book lacks, is the dazzle, coherence and wit of someone like Kahneman, or the personality of Jamie Whyte (Bad Thoughts) but that is clearly an inhuman standard to apply.
This is more like a reminder and check list. Still good listening.
Narration is professional quality.
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- Chus
- 26-02-2014
Massive disappointment
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Despite his claims of 'researching a vast amount of scientific evidence and literature' there's nothing terribly original here. Overall the book feels like a reworking of Daniel Kahneman's and other's works (including his hero Warren Buffet, who's cited innumerable times). In fact, the book could have very well being cut by 50% without much loss. The first few chapters are okay overall (hence my two star rating), but then it descends into a succession of platitudes and half-cooked arguments.There are other bits that are at the very best amusing, and at times annoying, like the over-representation of Swiss contribution to the human knowledge or some tints of 'misogynistic' innuendo... Anyway, that's not the worse of this books faults.The overall tone of the book is patronizing, made much worse by the pompous tone of the narrator. There are parts that require an enormous self-control effort to not smash the audio while listening. The author takes an arrogant perspective on many of the subjects he approaches, even classifying as 'idiotic' some behaviors, but he lacks the sincerity to admit his lack of knowledge in key aspects of psychology and neuroscience that is broadly evident across the book (funnily enough, the author stresses we should be warned against stepping out our 'circle of competence'). In summary, probably you're better off by reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink", Daniel Kahneman's "thinking fast and slow", Ben Goldacre "Bad Science" and Chip and Dan Heath's "Decisive". At least these carry on considerable more weight.
What could Rolf Dobelli have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Keep it within his 'circle of competence'. He tries too hard to guide us all mere mortals to scape our errors, but in doing so he portraits himself as the expert he is not.The book feels like just another poor 'self-help' attempt (a genre, by the way, heavily condemned by the author).He should have tried a more humble and down-to-earth approach to the problem he's trying to approach.
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Jonathan Keeble?
Either Jonathan Keeble has done a superb job in reflecting the patronizing tone of the book or his narrating style is making it a hundred fold more obvious. I would have appreciated a more 'approachable' voice, one of us mere mortals...
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Massive disappointment and at times anger about the nonsense included in it.
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- Mrs
- 28-10-2016
Not that in depth
For me there are much better self help books on the market, try Black Box Thinking first. This book is a little simplistic and is too broad for any of the ideas to be truly developed and for them to sink in. Too much of a scatter gun approach to actually make any difference.
If you have the time to expand on the topics yourself then you could benefit a lot. But I am guessing if you are the type of person who can do this and has the time to then youre not the type of person who would benefit from it in any case.
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- Clive
- 01-12-2013
Interesting is muddled
If you could sum up The Art of Thinking Clearly in three words, what would they be?
Interesting, random, thoughtful.
What did you like best about this story?
It challenges the way you think about everyday situations, statistics and news.
What does Jonathan Keeble bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
He narrates it with humour and notably engaging inflection. It is not a 'story' but a collection of observations and advice on how to analyse and consider news, statistics and life in general, so it needed someone who could liven up the 'dry' content which he mostly does successfully.
Any additional comments?
This is a book that makes you think about how you think, what you take for granted and why a lot of what you see in the media might, in fact, be rubbish! It concentrates a bit too much on 'money' but having said that I really enjoyed it. It will certainly help me stop and think before reaching erroneous conclusions in the future. My only criticism is that it could provide a bit more of an 'overview' as this amounts to a collection of fairly random musings without much guidance on when and how to apply them.
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- Richie
- 05-04-2015
Weak and opportunistic
What disappointed you about The Art of Thinking Clearly?
This book reads like each wikipedia page on cognitive bias had been edited into a short chapter long essay with some very weak personally reflections on the biases discussed.
The only art I could hear, was the art of making a bit of cash with an opportunistic side project; the art of spending ten minutes a day taking notes from the internet.
It isn't in the same league as titles like You Are Not So Smart, Your Brain at Work, or even How the Mind Works, in which new research and primary sources take the fore.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that Rolf is a software programmer who has written some kind of bot to trawl wikipedia to generate non-fiction.
What could Rolf Dobelli have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Some real research of the real research
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Sure
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Art of Thinking Clearly?
All of them
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- Rajshekhar
- 21-04-2015
Brilliant work!
Excellant narration. Many useful tips on day-to-day decisions. Loved from 1st word to last word!
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- Second from the left
- 04-01-2015
Good to dip into
Well written and easy to digest, easy to dip into when you need a refresher, concepts well articulated and structured
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- De Melo
- 17-06-2022
fantastic
one of my favourite non fiction reads, I've read so many personal development, self help, business books and this really cuts the crap. Will definitely listen to this again and probably buy the physical book to highlight some key points.
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- Kai
- 22-05-2022
Great points with great examples
This book has a lot of chapters, probably nearing 100 (I haven't finished it yet). Each is a well-written and well-narrated self-contained section with an introductory point that he follows with a real-world example in his life, and a hypothetical scenario you could find yourself in. Out of all the "self-help" and "improvement" books I've listened to, this is the only one that kept the points simple and removed the waffle which often obscures the main point being made.
Due to the number of points in the book, I will be listening to it over and over again as remembering 100+ mindful tips after only one listen would be nearly impossible.
If you want a clearly stated, self-enlightening book with real-world applications, you have to give this a go.
Quite honestly I'm shocked at the 4.3 rating (433 Reviews), I've often struggled to concentrate on books, becoming easily distracted in my own thoughts, but this book is so engaging that this rarely happens. This may be due to the relatively short chapters which serve as a checkpoint that makes me aware if I've lost concentration, but whatever the reason, it makes for an amazingly engaging book. 10/10
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- Anonymous User
- 06-03-2022
Good read but lacks depth, still recommend it
I don't expect to simply avoid this errors after reading the book however it directed me to more reading and more thinking around individual topics which I really liked.
This is a good example of something I read to become more ignorant (in a good way)
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