Die Kunst Des Klaren Denkens: 52 Denkfehler, Die Sie Besser Anderen überlassen (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
The title shall be ( The Art of Thinking Negatively)The book has many contradictionsThe author himself to several biases that he is advising people to avoid. Sunk cost fallacy bias is clear in his story with the doctor.If the author does not have evidence for God's existence, this does not mean there is none(p27). We look to heavens however the author may look to whatever he likes(p40).Author is talking about story bias and he is falling in this all over the few pages i have read(p41).(P46)" ...but you have just wasted your time reading this chapter."Actually, i have wasted my time reading your book. I’m a fan of books that examine the frailties of our vaunted human intelligence and rationality. They are fascinating, cautionary and, one illogically hopes, instructive. In the past decade, Gazzaniga, Kahneman, Taleb, Mlodinow, Hallinan, and others have written illuminating books on the subject. Socrates was no slouch on the subject either, and philosophers throughout the ages have commented on such fallacies (usually while committing others). Dobelli’s book is a brief compendium of 99 logical flaws, most of which have been more thoroughly discussed by other researchers and writers, and it sheds no further light on them. It may be useful as a list, but without an index or, even better, some sort of process or map to help you find where your brain is jumping the rails, I’m not even sure of that. As well, some of his illustrative examples and anecdotes seem to miss the point of the cognitive weakness they’re trying to explain, and at times his advice is simplistic or just plain wrong.The writing and translation are competent and easy to read, and the book provides easy and sometimes amusing light reading, but not much more than that.
What do You think about Die Kunst Des Klaren Denkens: 52 Denkfehler, Die Sie Besser Anderen überlassen (2011)?
Might seem a bit pessimistic after a certain point... decent read nonetheless.
—Meghan
Offers an interesting different prospective of the world and how we see it
—ritu
An uninspiring collection with mundane, irrelevant examples.
—gak
