REVIEW: "Why did we make a mistake" - Find your mistakes and correct them
Books / / December 19, 2019
I read a very good book about why we make mistakes. Author of the book from the scientific point of view, coming to the issue, citing as evidence a lot of experiments and surveys. And all this is not a boring treatise!
Every day we make mistakes. And most often it is the random error. At least, we think so. But what, really? This book helped me understand why I make mistakes. At least most of them. Why do you buy what you do not need; why do you do wrong; why do you communicate with people who drag you to the bottom? Answers to these questions will help you find this cool book.
Joseph Hallinan
Writer, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. He taught in many American colleges, was a professor at Vanderbilt University.
first impressions
I had hoped that the book will be a slight artistic reading. And in general, I was not mistaken. But was not entitled to 100%. This book presents a number of scientific experiments and studies. But they are not fed the dry language of numbers and facts, and interesting and sometimes exciting stories. The book is not boring scientific treatise. Above it is not necessary to sit down and think long. And it is quite suitable for reading at bedtime.
Who is this book and what she
This book is suitable absolutely everyone, because each of us makes mistakes. Absolutely book will be of interest to those who want to know why he makes mistakes. The book will teach them to detect and analyze. And this book can be useful to you not only for self-improvement - the material from the book can be used as a tool in the fight against the enemies. After all, in order to hit the enemy, you need to know its weaknesses.
I wrote a full list of the chapters of this book, that you specifically understand what is it. Chapter titles do reflect the content and the content of the book as a whole.
- We look, but do not always see.
- We are looking for meaning in everything.
- We are finding the facts.
- We all wear rose-colored glasses.
- We can both walk and chew gum - nothing more.
- We incorrectly interpret reality.
- We "skim the cream".
- We love to order.
- Men first opened fire.
- We all appreciate themselves above average.
- We'd better yourself in all face it.
- We ourselves are in no way limiting.
- On the other side of the hill, the grass is not greener than ours.
About the design of the book and its translation
Translation, as always, very high quality. For this we can say a big thank the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber". They also gave me the book for review. I can not say anything about the paper version of the book, as I read it in electronic form. Publisher's website you can buy as a paper version of the book, and e-mail. Also available book application for iPhone and Android.
Making books also causes positive emotions. Important moments chapters divided into separate paragraphs of text that can not be ignored. This will be especially useful for those unfortunate people who have learned to read books on the diagonal.
Output
This book is exactly to our readers. Finding errors, you can not to repeat them, and thus improve your life. And this is the real life hacking. The only thing I missed in the book, so it's findings. Something like instructions on how to correct the errors that we discovered thanks to the book. I put this book 8 points out of 10. It need not be present on your bookshelf, but for entertainment and at the same time good reading will come down.
"Why we are wrong. Trap of thinking in action, "Joseph Hallinan
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