Loserthink by Scott Adams - How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America - Hardback Non Fiction Book - Portfolio 2019

Details Condition: Brand New Format: Hardback ISBN: 9780593083529 Publisher: Portfolio Overview Loserthink is Scott Adams' sharp-witted guide to escaping the mental traps that keep even intelligent, educated people from seeing the world clearly. Drawing on lessons from engineering, science, entrepreneurship, history and art, Adams shows how narrow thinking creates blind spots. This hardback exposes the everyday reasoning failures fuelling modern arguments, from social media outrage to political tribalism, and offers practical tools to think more broadly, spot flawed logic instantly, and hold your own in any debate with clarity and confidence. About the Book In Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America, Scott Adams argues that even the smartest and most educated people can fall into "loserthink" simply because they've never been exposed to the best thinking practices used in other disciplines. Psychologists, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, historians and artists all view the world through different mental filters, and understanding those filters is the key to avoiding sloppy reasoning. Adams identifies telltale signs of loserthink: letting ego steer decisions, arguing with words rather than reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, only trusting familiar news sources, and over-interpreting coincidences. Against a backdrop of constant phone notifications and social media anger, it is easier than ever to feel anxious, defensive and trapped in an echo chamber. This book offers a practical cure, teaching readers the most useful thinking habits borrowed from a wide range of fields. Across its chapters, Adams shows readers how to recognise the walls of their own mental prison and break free of them, and how to become one of the most perceptive, respected voices in any conversation. Written in Adams' trademark irreverent style, the book blends humour with useful mental models, making ideas about reasoning and bias easy to apply to everyday argum