Mindware
Richard E. Nisbett
ISBN: 9780374112677
Unpacks basic cognitive errors and offers alternative thought-patterns.
Read September 2015
We're really not designed very well, and we've evolved our environment into a place that our ancestors - where we get our basic mental frameworks - would never even recognize, let alone be able to navigate. Despite this, we do fairly well, until we pretty spectacularly don't. Nisbett identifies some basic cognitive errors that humans make when we're trying to think about difficult or abstract things, and offers suggestions for how to counteract those tendencies, or at least how to recognize when you're doing them so you know you're not actually being rational, even when you think you are.
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