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Discipline Your Thoughts: Uncover The Origins of Your Thoughts, Correct Common Thinking Errors, and Critically and Logically Assess Your Beliefs
Do your impulsive thoughts and actions bring only trouble? Do you often grab your head muttering “what was I thinking?”
There is a our first, instinctual thoughts and actions are usually irrational and self-sabotaging. Discipline Your Thoughts 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.
Our mind doesn’t work the way we think it does.
This 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 discipline your thoughts.
Become less irrational.
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. Discipline Your Thoughts 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 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? Less biased thinking will lead to smart decision making which leads to better relationships, financial decisions, health-related choices. Make fewer mistakes in your thinking – prevention is easier than correction.
Improve your beliefs, social biases, and memory mix-ups by understanding how your brain works.
There is a our first, instinctual thoughts and actions are usually irrational and self-sabotaging. Discipline Your Thoughts 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.
Our mind doesn’t work the way we think it does.
This 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 discipline your thoughts.
Become less irrational.
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. Discipline Your Thoughts 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 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? Less biased thinking will lead to smart decision making which leads to better relationships, financial decisions, health-related choices. Make fewer mistakes in your thinking – prevention is easier than correction.
Improve your beliefs, social biases, and memory mix-ups by understanding how your brain works.
- GenresNonfictionPsychology
211 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2019
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Steven Schuster
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March 18, 2019
Whether you're new to cognitive biases or you've already read a bunch of books on this topic, this book is worth a read. It's a short and to the point book about various biases everyone has, quick examples of each bias, and actions we can take to avoid said biases. It can work as a solid introduction into the field or a reminder of biases we should be trying to avoid. It wasn't my first book on the topic, but I learned about a couple of new biases I had not heard about before.
It's a content-dense book. Even though I usually listen to audiobooks at 3.0x speed, I slowed this one down to 2.0x to get everything out of it. The narration was even and sounded great at the increased listening speed (which doesn't always happen).
It's a content-dense book. Even though I usually listen to audiobooks at 3.0x speed, I slowed this one down to 2.0x to get everything out of it. The narration was even and sounded great at the increased listening speed (which doesn't always happen).
November 21, 2021
Was good until meditation
This was a good book until the need for meditation came into the process. I am someone who doesn't meditate and gets nothing from it, so to see such great work hampered by my exclusion by way of not meditating makes me give the book less.
There is some great information here otherwise, a great consolidation of what biases and thinking is. A good reference guide once you boil out the need to meditate
This was a good book until the need for meditation came into the process. I am someone who doesn't meditate and gets nothing from it, so to see such great work hampered by my exclusion by way of not meditating makes me give the book less.
There is some great information here otherwise, a great consolidation of what biases and thinking is. A good reference guide once you boil out the need to meditate
May 6, 2019
Great Insight
A well written book with excellent insights on how the mind works and how it can easily cloud the decision making capabilities.
A well written book with excellent insights on how the mind works and how it can easily cloud the decision making capabilities.
May 18, 2019
Quick Read
A quick enjoyable read that presented several topics for further research. It is a good starting point for this subject matter.
A quick enjoyable read that presented several topics for further research. It is a good starting point for this subject matter.
September 19, 2019
Good
Give a clear explanation on Why we think in some ways so we can identify and work with them to behave in thr best way.
Give a clear explanation on Why we think in some ways so we can identify and work with them to behave in thr best way.
June 13, 2020
Steven's insights on anchoring, empathy, and biases such as self-serving, ego-centric, authority, illusory, and in-group are worth noting.
It was interesting to learn that bilingual people have a greater sense of empathy than single-language speaking people due to their multi-lingual capabilities helping them know what other cultures go through. Best of all, it was great to learn that depressed people have the least amount of ego-centrism due to them truly knowing what they contributed to groups. Their displacement, thanks to in-group bias, the bias that is centered toward group fit, causes them to know that they were unfairly treated. Still, the unfair treatment hurts them and thus they remain depressed.
The quote I love from the book comes from Albert Einstein: "If you can’t explain it simply you don’t understand it enough." This book is too good to be a 3.7-star book. Steven probably is a victim of the negative readers' biases based on in-group, illusory, false consensus, self-serving, and ego-centric personality attributes and no empathy. Maybe if they recognized each of these attributes, they'd appreciate Steven's work more.
It was interesting to learn that bilingual people have a greater sense of empathy than single-language speaking people due to their multi-lingual capabilities helping them know what other cultures go through. Best of all, it was great to learn that depressed people have the least amount of ego-centrism due to them truly knowing what they contributed to groups. Their displacement, thanks to in-group bias, the bias that is centered toward group fit, causes them to know that they were unfairly treated. Still, the unfair treatment hurts them and thus they remain depressed.
The quote I love from the book comes from Albert Einstein: "If you can’t explain it simply you don’t understand it enough." This book is too good to be a 3.7-star book. Steven probably is a victim of the negative readers' biases based on in-group, illusory, false consensus, self-serving, and ego-centric personality attributes and no empathy. Maybe if they recognized each of these attributes, they'd appreciate Steven's work more.
May 9, 2020
Nice bookmark collection
I choose 3/5, because it is short version of something big that Title promises. Saw it on amazon recomendations, because I have read similar books, but after reading a lot of similar subject, this book is mildly interesting.
But, it have large pool of references to it's sources, which I greatly apprechiated. It gave me a lot material for "reading further".
Even if I am disssatisfied with volume of the subject, it is a good read afterall. I reccomend it.
I choose 3/5, because it is short version of something big that Title promises. Saw it on amazon recomendations, because I have read similar books, but after reading a lot of similar subject, this book is mildly interesting.
But, it have large pool of references to it's sources, which I greatly apprechiated. It gave me a lot material for "reading further".
Even if I am disssatisfied with volume of the subject, it is a good read afterall. I reccomend it.
May 16, 2019
nothing extremely remarkable. seemed pretty obvious to me.
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