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The Bug in Our Thinking and the Way to Fix It
What if a single cause lies beneath millions of misunderstandings and mistakes?
What if the foundation of modern technology introduced an invisible bias into our thinking?
What if you could understand why so many arguments go wrong and how to set them right?
In a world awash with illusion and misinformation, this is a profound and practical guide towards clarity. It has philosophy for non-philosophers, hypnosis for non-hypnotists, and stories for hungry hearts. From Arizona to Madagascar, we join an intriguing journey in search of understanding via psychotherapy, storytelling, and the British Library, uncovering on our way the vulnerabilities that lurk within our language.
Give this book to your friends on the other side of the debate. Any debate. Any side.
Hugh Willbourn is the best0selling author with Paul McKenna of I Can Mend Your Broken Heart. He is a therapist, negotiation consultant, and storyteller. He has a PhD in philosophy from City University, London. For 12 years, he was the co-owner of the highly regarded and innovative qualitative market research agency Corr Willbourn Research & Development.
What if the foundation of modern technology introduced an invisible bias into our thinking?
What if you could understand why so many arguments go wrong and how to set them right?
In a world awash with illusion and misinformation, this is a profound and practical guide towards clarity. It has philosophy for non-philosophers, hypnosis for non-hypnotists, and stories for hungry hearts. From Arizona to Madagascar, we join an intriguing journey in search of understanding via psychotherapy, storytelling, and the British Library, uncovering on our way the vulnerabilities that lurk within our language.
Give this book to your friends on the other side of the debate. Any debate. Any side.
Hugh Willbourn is the best0selling author with Paul McKenna of I Can Mend Your Broken Heart. He is a therapist, negotiation consultant, and storyteller. He has a PhD in philosophy from City University, London. For 12 years, he was the co-owner of the highly regarded and innovative qualitative market research agency Corr Willbourn Research & Development.
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June 20, 2023
Why I like this book?
Because it triggered my curiosity at the beginning and is still intriguing until the end - “what is this story for?”.
Because it conveyed the messages in non conventional ways (with conversations, stories, and its strange messiness / openness).
Because I cannot give a summary of the book or its takeaways. You read it and find your own. Or feel like you want to think and read it again later…
Because I think it will be worth your time.
Because it triggered my curiosity at the beginning and is still intriguing until the end - “what is this story for?”.
Because it conveyed the messages in non conventional ways (with conversations, stories, and its strange messiness / openness).
Because I cannot give a summary of the book or its takeaways. You read it and find your own. Or feel like you want to think and read it again later…
Because I think it will be worth your time.
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April 30, 2025Whether to give it five stars, or four... is a dilemma over a pointless abstraction, which touches at the core themes discussed throughout this book.
The book is a warm, friendly contemplation of lucid thoughts about the state of humanity, thoughts borne out of a several decades of rigorous study and rich life experience.
It's brainy, without being boring or boorish
Without being a work of genius, it avoids glibness.
It avoids becoming a sauna of psychobabble,
And it avoids becoming a pile of studies referenced reverentially in a spirit of scientism.
It's as close as possible to spending hours of your free time with somebody interesting, bright and gentle, who relates to you a lot of stories.
As such, let me suggest that this book is worth the time of pretty much everyone in the world.
P. S. The audio version of the book is the most pleasant audio book this reviewer has ever listened to.
The book is a warm, friendly contemplation of lucid thoughts about the state of humanity, thoughts borne out of a several decades of rigorous study and rich life experience.
It's brainy, without being boring or boorish
Without being a work of genius, it avoids glibness.
It avoids becoming a sauna of psychobabble,
And it avoids becoming a pile of studies referenced reverentially in a spirit of scientism.
It's as close as possible to spending hours of your free time with somebody interesting, bright and gentle, who relates to you a lot of stories.
As such, let me suggest that this book is worth the time of pretty much everyone in the world.
P. S. The audio version of the book is the most pleasant audio book this reviewer has ever listened to.
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