• The Art of Thinking Clearly

  • The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making
  • By: Rolf Dobelli
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (93 ratings)

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

By: Rolf Dobelli
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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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.

©2013 Rolf Dobelli (P)2013 Hodder & Stoughton

Critic reviews

Do you have to read this book? Definitely. It's extremely entertaining and offers a fundamentally sound introduction to the nature of human thought (Professor Dr (h.c.) Roland Berger, Founder and Honorary Chairman of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants)
Three pages in, and you've already learned something else (Franz Himpsel, Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Rolf Dobelli is endowed with both imagination and realism, a combination hard to find since the 16th-century Renaissance (Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of BLACK SWAN)

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Excellent

Really well thought through and preformed. It’s been a while since I enjoyed such a good book.

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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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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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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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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?

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