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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
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akg_67onJan 31, 2021
Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
How to Decide, Annie Duke
Asking the right question: A guide to critical thinking, Browne & Keeley
Thinking in Systems, Meadows
officemonkeyonJuly 16, 2012
There are two other excellent "self-help" books that should be part of everyone's bookshelf. They are:
* "Getting to Yes" which I think is the greatest book on negotiation. "How to deal"
* "Sources of Power" by Gary Kline talks about how people make decisions. "How to decide"
Give me these four books, and a firm place to stand, and I will move the world.
hayksaakianonJuly 3, 2021
For example, one of the ideas is the "doctor evil" or "imposter" game.
(1) Imagine a positive goal.
(2) Imagine that Dr. Evil has control of your brain, causing you to make decisions that will guarantee failure.
(3) Any given instance of that type of decision must have a good enough rationale that it won’t be noticed by you or others examining that decision.
(4) Write down those decisions.
Someone elses notes from this book: https://wisdomfromexperts.com/why-you-must-use-negative-thin...
officemonkeyonJuly 17, 2012
"Sources of Power" is "How to Decide."
My lack of formatting skill makes it look like there are four books instead of two.
etherextractiononJuly 17, 2012