Critical Reasoning Smart Thinking Books
A series of books to learn the crucial skill of critial reasoning! Discover the secrets of chaos, the best questions to ask, examples of successful black box thinking, how to lift the curtain on cognitive bias and how a mindset hack is the key to growth. Below are some short reviews of each book, combined with affiliate links to a number of online bookshops where you can buy each book to help fund this site.
Review From Book Depository: Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.
(All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: Based on the wildly popular commencement address, the art of asking (and answering) good questions by the Dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Whether we're in the boardroom or the classroom, we spend far too much time and energy looking for the right answer. But the truth is that questions are just as important as answers, often more so. If you ask the wrong question, for instance, you're guaranteed to get the wrong answer. A good question, on the other hand, inspires a good answer and, in the process, invites deeper understanding and more meaningful connections between people. Asking a good question requires us to move beyond what we think we know about an issue or a person to explore the difficult and the unknown, the awkward, and even the unpleasant. In Wait, What?, Jim Ryan, dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, celebrates the art of asking-and answering-good questions. (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Or continued doing something you knew was bad for you? These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better decisions.
(All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: Black Box Thinking is a new approach to high performance, a means of finding an edge in a complex and fast-changing world. It is not just about sport, but has powerful implications for business and politics, as well as for parents and students. In other words, all of us.
(All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing) Review From Book Depository: Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area. (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.
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Book Depository €9.23
Waterstones £10.99
Amazon UK £7.83
Amazon US $13.43
Wait, What?: And Life's Other Essential Questions
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Book Depository €17.68
Waterstones £14.99
Amazon UK £8.99
Amazon US $11.99
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision-making-work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.
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Book Depository €8.42
Waterstones £9.99
Amazon UK £6.95
Amazon US $12.83
Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
Drawing on a dizzying array of case studies and real-world examples, together with cutting-edge research on marginal gains, creativity and grit, Matthew Syed tells the inside story of how success really happens - and how we cannot grow unless we are prepared to learn from our mistakes.
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Book Depository €8.03
Waterstones £9.99
Amazon UK £6.81
Amazon US $12.28
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Book Depository €8.69
Waterstones £10.99
Amazon UK £7.37
Amazon US $10.49
Image Copyrights: Penguin Books Ltd (Antifragile), HarperCollins Publishers Inc (Wait, What?), Hodder & Stoughton (The Art of Thinking Clearly), John Murray Press (Black Box Thinking), Little, Brown Book Group (Mindset)
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