> Rolf Dobelli. 2014. _The Art of Thinking Clearly_, Harper. 1. Why You Should Visit Cemeteries: - [[Survivorship Bias]] 2. Does Harvard Make You Smarter?: - [[Swimmer's Body Illusion]] 3. Why You See Shapes in the Clouds: - [[Clustering Illusion]] 4. If 50 Million People Say Something Foolish, Its still Foolish: - [[Social Proof]] 5. Why You Should Forget the Past: - [[Sunk Cost Fallacy]] 6. Don't Accept Free Drinks: - [[Reciprocity]] 7. Beware the Special Case: - [[ Confirmation Bias]] 8. Murder Your Darlings: - [[Confirmation Bias]] 9. Don't Bow to Authority: - [[Authority Bias]] 10. Leave Your Supermodel Friends at Home: - [[ Contrast Effect]] 11. Why We Prefer a Wrong Map to No Map at All: - [[Availability Bias]] 12. Why 'No Pain, No Gain' Should Set Alarm Bells Ringing: - [[It'll-Get-Worse-Before-it-Gets Better Fallacy]] 13. Even True Stories are Fairytales: - [[Story Bias]] 14. Why You Should Keep a Diary: - [[Hindsight Bias]] 15. Why You Systematically Overestimate Your Knowledge and Abilities: - [[Overconfidence Effect]] 16. Don't Take News Anchors Seriously: - [[Chauffeur Knowledge]] 17. You Control Less Than You Think: - [[Illusion of Control]] 18. Never Pay Your Lawyer by the Hour: - [[Incentive Super-Response Tendency]] 19. The Dubious Efficacy of Doctors, Consultants and Psychotherapists: - [[Regression to Mean]] 20. Never Judge a Decision by its Outcome: - [[Outcome Bias]] 21. Less is More: - [[the Paradox of Choice]] 22. You Like Me, You Really, Really Like Me: - [[Liking Bias]] 23. Don't Cling to Things: - [[Endowment Effect]] 25. The Inevitability of Unlikely Events - [[Coincidence]] 27. The Calamity of Conformity: - [[Groupthink]] 28. Why You'll Soon Be Playing Megatrillions: - [[Neglect of Probability]] 27. Why the Last Cookie in the Jar Makes Your Mouth Water: - [[Scarcity Error]] 28. When You Hear Hoofbeats, Don't Expect a Zebra: - [[Base-Rate Neglect]] 29. Why the 'Balancing Force of the Universe' is Baloney: - [[Gambler's Fallacy]] 30. Why the Wheel of Fortune Makes Our Heads Spin: - [[The Anchor]] 31. How to Relieve People of Their Millions: - [[Induction]] 32. Why Evil Strikes Harder Than Good: - [[Loss Aversion]] 33. Why Teams Are Lazy: - [[Social Loafing]] 35. Stumped By a Sheet of Paper: - [[ Exponential Growth]] 35. Curb Your Enthusiasm: - [[Winner's Curse]] 36. Never Ask a Writer if The Novel is Autobiographical: - [[Fundamental Attribution Error]] 37. Why You Shouldn't Believe in the Stork: - [[False Causality]] 38. Everyone is Beautiful at the Top: - [[Halo Effect]] 39. Congratulations! You've Won Russian Roulette: - [[Alternative Paths]] 40. False Prophets: - [[Forecast Illusion]] 41. The Deception of Specific Cases: - [[Conjunction Fallacy]] 42. It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It: - [[Framing]] 43. Why Watching and Waiting is Torture: - [[Action Bias]] 44. Why You Are Either the Solution - or the Problem: - [[Omission Bias]] 45. Don't Blame Me: - [[Self-Serving Bias]] 46. Be Careful What You Wish For: - [[Hedonic Treadmill]] 47. Do Not Marvel at Your Existence: - [[Self-Selection Bias]] 48. Why Experience Can Damage Our Judgement: - [[Association Bias]] 49. Be Wary When Things Get Off to a Great Start: - [[Beginner's Luck]] 50. Sweet Little Lies: - [[Cognitive Dissonance]] 51. Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last - But Only On Sundays: - [[Hyperbolic Discounting]] 52. Any Lame Excuse: - [['Because' Justification]] 53. Decide Better - Decide Less: - [[Decision Fatigue]] 54. Would You Wear Hitler's Sweater?: - [[Contagion Bias]] 55. Why There Is No Such Thing as an Average War: - [[the Problem with Averages]] 56. How Bonuses Destroy Motivation: - [[Motivation Crowding]] 57. If You Have Nothing To Say, Say Nothing: - [[Twaddle Tendency]] 58. How to Increase the Average IQ of Two States: - [[Will Rogers Phenomenon]] 59. If you Have an Enemy, Give Him Information: - [[Information Bias]] 60. Hurts so Good: - [[Effort Justification]] 61. Why Small Things Loom Large: - [[the Law of Small Numbers]] 62. Handle with Care: - [[Expectations]] 63. Speed Traps Ahead!: - [[Simple Logic]] 64. How to Expose a Charlatan: - [[Forer Effect]] 65. Volunteer Work Is For The Birds: - [[Volunteer's Folly]] 66. Why You Are a Slave to Your Emotions: - [[Affect Heuristic]] 67. Be Your Own Heretic: - [[Introspection Illusion]] 68. Why You Should Set Fire to Your Ships: - [[Inability to Close Doors]] 69. Disregard the Brand New: - [[Neomania]] 70. Why Propaganda Works: - [[Sleeper Effect]] 71. Why It's Never Just a Two-Horse Race: - [[Alternative Blindness]] 72. Why We Take Aim at Young Guns: - [[Social Comparison Bias]] 73. Why First Impressions Deceive: - [[Primacy And Recency Effects]] 74. Why You Can't Beat Home-made: - [[Not-Invented-Here Syndrome]] 75. How to Profit from the Implausible: - [[the Black Swan]] 76. Knowledge is Non-transferable: - [[Domain Dependence]] 77. The Myth of Like-Mindedness: - [[False-Consensus Effect]] 78. You Were Right All Along: - [[Falsification of History]] 79. Why You Identify With Your Football Team: - [[In-Group Out-Group Bias]] 80. The Difference Between Risk and Uncertainty: - [[Ambiguity Aversion]] 81. Why You Go With the Status Quo: - [[Default Effect]] 82. Why 'Last Chances' Make Us Panic: - [[Fear of Regret]] 83. How Eye-Catching Details Render Us Blind: - [[Salience Effect]] 84. Why Money is Not Naked: - [[House-Money Effect]] 85. Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Work: - [[Procrastination]] 86. Build Your Own Castle: - [[Envy]] 87. Why You Prefer Novels to Statistics: - [[Personification]] 88. You Have No Idea What You Are Overlooking: - [[Illusion of Attention]] 89. Hot Air: - [[Strategic Misrepresentation]] 90. Where's The Off Switch?: - [[Overthinking]] 91. Why You Take On Too Much: - [[Planning Fallacy]] 92. Those Wielding Hammers See Only Nails: - [[Déformation Professionnelle]] 93. Mission Accomplished: - [[Zeigarnik Effect]] 94. The Boat Matters More Than the Rowing: - [[Illusion of Skill]] 95. Why Checklists Deceive You: - [[Feature-Positive Effect]] 96. Drawing the Bull's-eye Around the Arrow: - [[Cherry-Picking]] 97. The Stone-Age Hunt for Scapegoats: - [[Fallacy of the Single Cause]] 98. Speed Demons Make Safe Drivers: - [[Intention-to-treat Error]] 99. Why You Shouldn't Read the News: - [[News Illusion ]]