Recognising the Pitfalls in Your Own Thinking

Discover how common thinking errors shape your judgments and choices. This book offers a practical framework for recognising and correcting these patterns. Every day, your mind takes shortcuts that feel like sound reasoning but often lead you astray. This book examines the common cognitive biases that shape how you think, decide, and remember, from confirmation bias to overconfidence and the many subtle distortions in between. Rather than promising a cure for flawed thinking, it offers a clear, practical framework for noticing these patterns as they occur in your own judgments and daily choices. You will find explanations grounded in established psychological research, along with concrete examples that show how biases operate in ordinary situations. This is an AI-generated book, written to present these concepts in an accessible and organised manner. It is intended as a starting point for readers who want to think more carefully, not as a definitive or exhaustive account of human cognition.

Pagina's: 118, Editie: Eerste editie, Paperback, Waries B.V.