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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgements and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis of 2008. Smart people do foolish things because intelligence is not the same as the capacity for rational thinking. The Rationality Quotient explains that these two traits, often (and incorrectly) thought of as one, refer to different...
43) GED test prep
Pub. Date
[2018-]
Language
English
Description
While other GED guides are intended for classroom use, our book is designed for self-study so you can prep at your own pace, on your own schedule. Kaplan is so certain that GED Test Prep 2018 offers the guidance you need that we guarantee it: After studying with our book, you'll pass the GED--or you'll get your money back.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Your Mindset impacts everything you think, say, and do. Your Mindset creates hope and hopelessness, success and failure. It is the software your brain uses to create attitude, experience, and achievement. It is also the filter that builds behavior. Your mindset causes you to blame others for failure or learn from experience. Your Mindset helps you make sense of everything that happens. It is the prism through which you experience life. Research has...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? How can innumeracy be turned into insight? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This new book addresses these questions as it attempts to rethink rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social. Together, these collected papers develop the idea that human thinking - from scientific creativity to simply...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 533
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For most of the 2,000-plus years since its foundation as a discipline by ancient Greek thinkers, rhetoric-the art of using language to persuade-was a keystone of a Western education. But in the early 20th century, studying rhetoric fell out of fashion. In The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself, Robin Reames, one of the world's leading scholars of rhetoric, argues that it's high time to bring it back. Drawing on examples ranging from the Sophist...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1-p'an.
Language
Korean
Description
Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of these tools remain unknown to most of us. In Mindware, psychologist Richart E. Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail. Nisbett has made a career of studying and teaching such powerful problem-solving concepts as the law of large numbers,...
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