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Publisher's Summary
(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)
Steven Johnson explores the art and science of making long-term decisions, whether in business, military, in your personal life, or on a global scale. Start making better decisions for your life today!
Click "Buy Now with 1-Click" to own your copy today!
What does this ZIP Reads Summary include?
- Synopsis of the original book
- Chapter-by-chapter summaries
- Key takeaways from each chapter
- Basic tenets of decision theory
- Techniques to help improve your long-term decision making
- Personal and historical anecdotes supporting his theory
- Editorial review
- Background on Steven Johnson
About the Original Book:
In Farsighted, Steven Johnson takes a detailed look at the history of decision making and decision theory. He provides easily actionable tips for improving decision-making in your own life. Johnson's book is rich with personal and historical examples to illustrate both effective decision processes and highlight some of the follies we commonly make. Not meant as a textbook on the current state of decision theory, Farsighted is instead an introspective look at how we've made it to this far - and what may lie ahead for humanity.
DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Farsighted. ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way.
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Critical thinking is more important than ever before, yet its value gets underestimated. Learn how to become better at it, now. The majority of the population isn’t very smart. Hopefully, this statement doesn’t offend anyone, but if you look at the statistics, it’s true. Critical thinking, however, is a skill that can be learned to enhance one’s cognitive abilities and the capability to see things in the right light and from a different angle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice book
- By Anonymous User on 10-26-19
By: George Feller
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How Our Brains Betray Us
- Change the Way You Think and Make Better Decisions by Understanding the Cognitive Biases and Heuristics That Destroy Our Lives!
- By: Magnus McDaniels
- Narrated by: Cody Davids
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story5 out of 5 stars 45
Tired of making decisions that seem to only work against you? It starts with understanding your brain and the decision-making process. Cognitive biases and heuristics have developed over thousands of years of evolution and can lead to serious damages in multiple areas of life if you don’t recognize them and stop them dead in their tracks. How Our Brains Betray Us has everything you need to know with examples, tools, and strategies to identify the most powerful cognitive biases that impair all types of decisions, how to avoid them and also use them to your advantage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I have read about heuristics
- By Marcin on 02-28-23
By: Magnus McDaniels
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Superforecasting
- The Art and Science of Prediction
- By: Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,722
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,004
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,989
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts' predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for Experts
- By Michael on 02-20-17
By: Philip Tetlock, and others
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Persuadable
- How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
- By: Al Pittampalli
- Narrated by: Al Pittampalli
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
As a leader, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness. Not anymore. In a world that's changing faster than ever, successful leaders realize that a genuine willingness to change their own minds is the ultimate competitive advantage. Drawing on evidence from social science, history, politics, and more, business consultant Al Pittampalli reveals why confidence, consistency, and conviction are increasingly becoming liabilities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Save yourself a bunch of future arguments...
- By Rob on 09-07-16
By: Al Pittampalli
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Critical Thinking
- Learning About Your Grey Matter and the Capacity to Analyze
- By: Martin Graves
- Narrated by: Jessica Mathison
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story5 out of 5 stars 101
Critical thinking is a quality that most people, unfortunately, don't possess. But you are going to be different. In this audiobook, you will find fascinating aspects of the critical thinking strategies so many intelligent thinkers use.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This can teach you a lot
- By Darrell on 11-14-19
By: Martin Graves
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Think Twice
- Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
- By: Michael J. Mauboussin
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 217
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 176
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Story4 out of 5 stars 176
How to Stop Yourself Before You Make Another Costly Decision - No one intentionally makes bad decisions. Yet we make them all the time. In fact, some of the worst disasters in recent history - the collapse of major investment banks, the global financial meltdown - were the result of seemingly reasonable decisions made by a lot of smart people. How does this happen? Michael J. Mauboussin argues that the correct process for deciding well - especially when the stakes are high - conflicts with how our minds naturally work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nothing original
- By Kilgore Trout on 09-01-18
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The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
- Incerto, Book 2
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,943
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,612
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but over the top
- By Anonymous User on 08-08-19
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Critical Thinking
- Thoughts on Neuroscience and Philosophy to Boost Your Brain Power
- By: Christian Velt
- Narrated by: Andrew Kluess
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story5 out of 5 stars 103
Questioning, skepticism, reasoning...all these things have one thing in common: They are the traits of a true critical thinker, someone who doesn't just accept something because everyone else is screaming the same claims. You're going to learn more about some of the following things: Inductive and deductive thinking, skeptical reasoning, rationalism and what it entails, how to make better decisions with logic and numbers, and so much more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Think about it...
- By Anonymous User on 09-24-19
By: Christian Velt
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Critical Thinking: Skills and Tools for Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
- By: Lucy Jenkins
- Narrated by: Clare Radix
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story5 out of 5 stars 101
Learn how to think smarter and use critical thinking to your advantage. Intelligence is not just something you have or don't have. It can be practiced. You can become more intelligent if you want to. People who think more logically, don't follow the masses or the trends, but they think for themselves, comparing all kinds of criteria and connotations to each other, while assessing the validity and conclusions of those data. Being able to make up your own mind, not just based on emotions, but rather on clear connections and consequences, is a highly valuable skill in this society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yeah, I was thinking this too
- By Margarita on 08-22-19
By: Lucy Jenkins
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Future Shock
- By: Alvin Toffler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations - even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships - all of them temporary. It illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Accurate
- By Peter Gracia on 03-31-19
By: Alvin Toffler
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Critical Thinking
- Making the Most Sense out of Your Deceptive Mind and Perceptions
- By: Julian Cardston
- Narrated by: Bill Kornfeld
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story5 out of 5 stars 103
Decision-making, rational thinking, contemplation, weighing pros and cons, and foreseeing the future...What do all these things have in common? They are related to the ability to think critically, to be skeptical, and to take all factors into account when look at different sides of a problem. You can better cause your future to be a bright one by looking at the consequences of your reasoning from a different perspective. The skill to step back and think about things has often been minimized but is about to be brought back and given the proper attention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice
- By Anonymous User on 11-04-19
By: Julian Cardston
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Red Teaming
- How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything
- By: Bryce G. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Bryce G. Hoffman
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Red Teaming is a revolutionary new way to make critical and contrarian thinking part of the planning process of any organization, allowing companies to stress test their strategies, flush out hidden threats and missed opportunities, and avoid being sandbagged by competitors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Helpful techniques for stress testing
- By Pintoo on 02-26-23
By: Bryce G. Hoffman
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Super Thinking
- The Big Book of Mental Models
- By: Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 414
The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models, and you can find them in dense textbooks on psychology, physics, economics, and more. Or, you can just listen to Super Thinking, a fun, illustrated guide to every mental model you could possibly need.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author falls in the same mental traps he talks...
- By gimenez on 08-04-19
By: Gabriel Weinberg, and others
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Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Calum Chace
- Narrated by: Calum Chace
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 358
Surviving AI is a concise, easy guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Fascinating and Enlightening
- By Striker on 07-31-16
By: Calum Chace
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The Critical Thinker
- The Path to Better Problem Solving, Accurate Decision Making, and Self-Disciplined Thinking
- By: Steven Schuster
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
The Critical Thinker gives you a thorough description of the rules and principles of critical thinking practiced by Einstein, Plato, and every great thinker in history. You will learn about the most important critical thinking principles, as well as shortcuts to make better decisions in specific situations. These critical thinking principles will help your personal life, career, and friendships. Improve your critical, logical, observational, and rational thinking skills with the timeless principles presented in this book.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Simple
- By Dimitri on 07-25-18
By: Steven Schuster
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Critical Thinking and Analytical Mind
- The Art of Making Decisions and Solving Problems. Think Clearly, Avoid Cognitive Biases and Fallacies in Systems. Improve Listening Skills. Be a Logical Thinker
- By: Marcus P. Dawson
- Narrated by: Ethan White
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Sometimes, in life, we are faced with problems and situations that we are unable to solve, and we waste a lot of time and energy without coming to a decision or solution that satisfies us. The world we live in is getting more complicated every day. You can only cope with our complicated world if you learn to control your thoughts and become a critical thinker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My children also benefited
- By Apollo on 07-12-21
By: Marcus P. Dawson