Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, And Wiser

Written by:
Guy P. Harrison
Narrated by:
Walter Dixon
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59
Narrator
8
Release Date
March 2016
Duration
9 hours 49 minutes
Summary
Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Guy Harrison demonstrates in a detailed fashion how to sort through bad ideas, unfounded claims, and bogus information to drill down to the most salient facts. By explaining how the human brain works, and outing its most irrational processes, this book provides the thinking tools that will help you make better decisions, ask the right questions (at the right time), know what to look for when evaluating information, and understand how your own brain subconsciously clouds your judgment.

Think you're too smart to be easily misled? Harrison summarizes scientific research showing how easily even intelligent and well-educated people can be fooled. We all suffer from cognitive biases, embellished memories, and the tendency to kowtow to authority figures or be duped by dubious 'truths' packaged in appealing stories. And as primates we are naturally status seekers, so we are prone to irrational beliefs that seem to enhance our sense of belonging and ranking. Emotional impulses and stress also all too often lead us into traps of misperception and bad judgment.

Understanding what science has discovered about the brain makes you better equipped to cope with its built-in pitfalls. Good Thinking--the book and the practice-- makes clear that with knowledge and the right thinking skills, anyone can lead a safer, wiser, more efficient, and productive life.
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David G.

Good read. Different view than I'm use to. It doesn't have all the answers though... Keep reading

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Anonymous

A few good thoughts but - I don’t know - just kinda meh.

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Aaron H.

Enjoyed this one. Downloaded it by accident, but turned out to be a good read (listen). Made me think and better yet, challenged some of my thinking! Somehow, the narrator sounded like/felt like the author. It was kinda cool. Is that weird? Perhaps both. Nevertheless, I liked it.

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