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The Art of Thinking Clearly

The document summarizes key lessons from the book 'The Art of Thinking Clearly' by Rolf Dobelli. It discusses cognitive biases like survivorship bias, swimmer's body illusion and how expectations and overthinking can impact decision making. The summary also touches on how our feelings, conformity, self image and social comparisons influence our beliefs and valuations.

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

The document summarizes key lessons from the book 'The Art of Thinking Clearly' by Rolf Dobelli. It discusses cognitive biases like survivorship bias, swimmer's body illusion and how expectations and overthinking can impact decision making. The summary also touches on how our feelings, conformity, self image and social comparisons influence our beliefs and valuations.

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 The art of thinking clearly

by-rolf dobelli

Prepared by:
 Jeemit Prajapati (200280109051)
 Pratham Jani (200280109015)
 Rana Pratipalsinh (200280109062)
 Hepin Pipariya (200280109009)

Apexa dharankar
(Faculty Guide)
 What kind of book is these?

 In one sense, this book is a construction


manual. It describes the tools you will need
for success, and offers blueprints to help you
build a successful and rewarding life.
 Guarding against survivorship bias
We tend to only hear about the successes or “survivors”
- we don’t hear the stories of the failures, thus
overestimate the chances of success.

Swimmer’s body illusion


Confusing the factor for selection with the result(ex:
swimming gives you a great frame; actually, great
swimmers are born with a good frame for swimming).
 KEY LESSONS
 We tend to be engrossed by interesting. Whether it
be compelling stories or exotic explanations
 Our attention is very selective and narrow
 Making decisions can be tiresome especially when
you are faced with many possible choices.

 Our feelings guide our decisions more than we think.


▪ We tend to follow what the group does - and
we’ll conform to prevent ourselves from being.
 We systematically overestimate our abilities in
many areas of life.
 We can control and predict much less than we think.
 We interpret information so that it fits with our self – image
and our pre-existing beliefs.

 We determine the value of things based on their availability


and by comparing them to others.
 Expectations
expectations form our reaction to various events, and
contribute to our happiness. Set expectations high for
yourself and the people you love, and lower them for
things you cannot control.

Overthinking
if you think too much, you will lose the wisdom of your
emotional response.

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