A Summary Review Of 'The Art Of Thinking Clearly' By Rolf Dobelli

 

There are 99 explanations on how we as human beings think in certain ways which are mostly manipulated because we do not realize the motives behind them. By understanding these 99 cognitive errors we are able to have an awareness that can improve our intellectual thinking that we can use as our advantage instead.
 
In this world, we live in the social community and it getting larger as we are immersed in the social media ecosystem. In this context, only some cognitive errors will be highlighted that I find essential in my life and business.

1. In life, there are more unexpected unknown risks than known risks. The unexpected unknown are the events that occur without warning and will affect our initial plan. Hence, we should not be too detail in the planning process, instead, we should look for the other possibilities that might occur and make different contingencies plans accordingly to these different potential scenarios.

2. We should not make decisions with just surface views of each option. Instead, in the prior, we should already know our objectives before looking at the options because from there we are clear about 'the important' and 'the not important' features to weigh when making a decision without emotions interfere.

3. Don't think an event occurs because of one single cause. In the environment of the event, there are 'changeable' and 'unchangeable' factors that we need to look at. Moreover, sometimes the event occurs with a cause that is influenced by other external causes.  

4. We should avoid the tendencies of ourselves sticking to the unworkable plan after many attempts because humans always feel obligated on what they already heavily invested in and end up with wrong wishful thinking. This is waste of time and by not acting toward a new plan we suppress ourselves from discovering new opportunities. Hence, follow unworkable trends lead to expected failures and changing the course of actions will lead to new discoveries that might bring better outcomes or at least new learnings.

5. We only can make a quality decision when we are well-rested, therefore, even short breaks are necessary between the interval of making several decisions straight. Besides that, if we are already experts from crossing multiple similar scenarios in our experiences, it is better to not think too much and just trust our intuition.  

Read more on The Art of Thinking Clearly book by Rolf Dobelli. In a conclusion, from an overview after reading this amazing book and after I have moments of reflections, I can see business is life, and we need to be slightly considerate of external factors or agendas in the decision-making process.
 
📒 The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli