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De Kunst Van Het Heldere Denken: 52 Denkfouten Die Je Beter Aan Anderen Kunt Overlaten (2011)

by Rolf Dobelli(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9023472632 (ISBN13: 9789023472636)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

De Bezige Bij

review 1: It's clear that ultimately we have evolved to have certain flaws in how we think, and to expect to be able to spot and correct them from reading this book is as illogical as some of these faults in the first place. Dobelli's own words sum this up: "Especially daunting is the transfer of academia to real life - from the theoretically sound to the practically possible. Of course, this also counts for this book. It will be difficult to transfer the knowledge from these pages to your daily life." So you have been warned.A few of the reviews below complain that a lot of these chapters were ripped off from other sources. I don't see it as this. Dobelli has been quite clear that these are purely notes compiled from other sources and examples to quickly highlight the many differen... moret cognitive biases. The fact he's been able to put them together in a format which has gone on to sell so many copies I think demonstrates the good job he's done (or maybe he was just lucky!)I'll be keeping this book by my desk - the bite size chapters make this perfect for picking up for a few minutes at a time. What's more with so many different errors in thinking we're all constantly making, it's probably easier to focus on a few by dipping back in to these pages from time to time.
review 2: 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. less

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