The Misguided Mind: Correct Everyday Thinking Errors, Be Less Irrational, And Improve Your Decision Making

by Steven Schuster

There is a our first, instinctual thoughts and actions are usually irrational and self-sabotaging. The Misguided Mind book will tell you why and also how can you correct it.

We make thinking errors on a day-to-day basis. They come naturally, thus we don’t think that we think in a distorted way , however, they can have a severe negative effect on our lives. Knowing what they are and how to identify them, we can help ourselves making better choices. In what area of life? All of personal relationships, business choices, spending habits, health-related engagements.


The book presents the scientific background of thinking errors related to behavior, social relations, and memory through the most famous psychology experiments, behavioral economics research, neuropsychology, and the author’s own observations. What remains is an entertaining but practical and informative guide to clear your mind.


This book aims to help you think about your thinking and find better solutions to your problems.

•Why are first impressions so powerful and permanent?
• Why do we rely on the first thought that pops into our mind?
•How can certain advertisements make us open our wallet immediately?
• How and why does our memory fool us on a daily basis?

Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. The Misguided Mind reveals the many ways our intuition can deceive us, why we succumb to these everyday brain tricks and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision making.

Correct the errors in your thinking habits and resist falling into your mental ambushes.

•Why we take bad decisions following the opinion of the masses,
• How we underestimate the power of emotions in rational decisions,
•Why we need instant confirmation to support our ideas,
• How ego distorts the sense of reality?

Mental clarity will boost your cognitive performance and smart decision making to heights you didn’t expect before. Don’t let the irrationalities of your brain sabotage the life you deserve. Make fewer mistakes in your thinking – prevention is easier than correction.

161 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2018

About the author

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