Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser by Harrison, Guy P.
Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser by Harrison, Guy P.

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

Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide...
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Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser by Harrison, Guy P.

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

$44.93
Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser by Harrison, Guy P.

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

$44.93
Author: Guy P. Harrison
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Guy P. Harrison
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781633880641


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/03/2015
Library Journal 09/15/2015 pg. 101

About the Author
Guy P. Harrison is an award-winning journalist and the author of Think: Why You Should Question Everything; 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian; 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True; 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God; and Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity.


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