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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking Hardcover – 18 Aug 2015

by Richard Nisbett (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 6 customer reviews
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Allen Lane (18 Aug. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1846148065
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846148064
  • Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.1 x 24 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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A devastating and persuasive refutation of all those who believe intellectual ability is fixed at birth. Few Americans have done as much to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human. (Malcolm Gladwell)

Mindware should offer us all an opportunity to understand and react more intelligently to the confusing world around us. (Leonard Mlodinow The New York Times Book Review)

Friendly and practical and aimed squarely at the lay reader (Emma Smith The Sunday Times)

The bad news is that our intuitive ways of thinking about the world are wrong. The good news is that it isn't hard to set them right. Nobody knows more about these things than the eminent psychologist Richard E. Nisbett, who has dedicated his life to understanding the shortcomings of the human mind and to finding ways to fix them. This book should be required reading at every university. (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness)

Compelling . . . Nisbett encourages us to turn these tools inward and test the legitimacy of our own easily swayed opinions and beliefs (Nick Romeo The Boston Globe)

About the Author

Richard Nisbett is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and one of the world's most respected psychologists. His books The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why and Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count have won multiple awards and been translated into more than ten languages.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA fascinating psychology and stats driven exploration of how we make decisions badly - and how they could be improved
By Brian Clegg TOP 500 REVIEWER on 22 Aug. 2015
Format: Hardcover
There's no doubt that Richard Nisbett's book, subtitled 'tools for smart thinking' is great, despite two issues. I want to get those issues out of the way first before we get onto the good stuff, with which it is packed. One issue is the writing style. This is a touch clumsy and could do with a little professional help. Nisbett has a tendency to overuse unnecessary jargon in sentences like this:
Our construal of objects and events is influenced not just by the schemas that are activated in particular contexts, but by the framing of judgments we have to make.
Nor ideally worded. The second issue I suspect comes more from the publisher, which is the attempt to frame this book (sorry, couldn't resist the italics) as a self-help title as much as popular science. It doesn't work particularly well as a practical self-help toolkit - it's not structured in a way to make this a good use, particularly because a large part of the book is focused on how we get things wrong, rather than how to do things better.

But what makes this book a pure delight is the way that it analyses our human take on the world and shows the flaws in the typical ways that we think which, if overcome, would enable us to make better decisions. Some of this is fairly theoretical, starting with the nature of inference and exploring the holes in the Popperian disdain for inference, but there's also an exploration of the results of a plethora of experiments which take everyday decisions and situations and try to understand what is happening.

One great example is over the analytic input of the subconscious. Nisbett shows us how the old saw about leaving a problem overnight to reach a better decision really works.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsDistils Life's Most Important Lesson: How To Think Clearly
By Melancholiac on 21 Aug. 2015
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This is the book I have spent years waiting for and it could only have been written by someone blessed with the laudable insight and scholarship of the author, Richard Nesbitt. Why do I value it so highly? This book amounts to a distillation of all the faculties and processes that are vital to our functioning as intelligent citizens of the world. Many books have laid claim -- usually on their behalf by people of high status --to achieving education's ultimate goal, to genuinely equip us to navigate the logical, philosophical and psychological hazards prone to bedevil even the best thinkers. Unlike so many pretenders, this one actually ascends to the throne. One could waste years studying arcane languages and moralistic fables and many of us, sadly, have done so.. Alternatively, one can read this book, take its ideas on board, commit them to memory and thereby attain that ever-elusive quality: wisdom.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood summary of lots of themes
By Simon Fox on 4 Oct. 2015
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Read thinking fast and slow previously and some common themes, but a good reminder and an easy read
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