10 min read ⌚ How Our Intuitions Deceive Us Follow your gut, they say. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons beg to differ. In The Invisible Gorilla, they claim that it’s sometimes much better to not judge the book by its cover. Who Should Read “The Invisible Gorilla”? And Why? If you are interested in the inner […]
13 min read ⌚ And Other Adventures You’d think that we’ve summarized all of Gladwell’s books, right? Well, there’s still one left: What the Dog Saw. Who Should Read “What the Dog Saw”? And Why? If you read Gladwell’s New Yorker column regularly, then you shouldn’t read What the Dog Saw: the book is a collection […]
9 min read ⌚ Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Terrorist attacks, climate change, pollution, children dying of preventable diseases… Think that the world is worse than ever? Well, it’s time you stopped being a pessimist and become “a very serious possibilist.” What you need is […]
7 min read ⌚ How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Steve Jobs once said that taking LSD was not merely “a profound experience,” but also “one of the two or three most important things” he had done in his life. “Stealing Fire” may hold the answer […]
7 min read ⌚ Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success The only person you are destined to become” – supposedly said Ralph Waldo Emerson once – “is the person you decide to be. Jeff Olson’s “The Slight Edge” should help you transform your decision into reality. Who Should Read “The Slight Edge”? And Why? According to its […]
8 min read ⌚ Love him or hate him, Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of “the world’s top intellectuals” and maybe even “the hottest thinker in the world” right now. Notice the quotations: Bryan Appleyard, a noted journalist, remarked the latter, and Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate, claims the former. ‘Nuff said, ha? Well, we’re just […]
14 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: In Blink, Gladwell proves that your intuition can often produce better decisions than extensive analysis. Your intuition can cut off all irrelevant information and focus only on the key factors. On the other hand, your gut instinct is also affected by all sorts of various factors such as biases that can […]
6 min read ⌚ The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice Talent is overrated – and never enough! And if you really want to succeed in anything in life, you’ll have to repeat this truism as if a mantra. And pair it up with another: practice makes perfect, practice makes perfect, practice makes perfect… […]
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