Thinking mode: 30 modes of constructing high-quality thinking

Douban score: 7.4

Content introduction:

Do you know how billionaires, CEOs, athletes and scientists think differently and avoid mistakes? Do you know how to focus on important things and make complex decisions quickly and confidently? It is important to establish your own thinking mode. Through many years' practice of studying psychology, the author has established 30 thinking modes to reveal true wisdom. These 30 thinking models are easy to understand, close to us, full of work and immediate results, including Eisenhower Matrix, Domino, Sanqi Law, Minimization of Regret, Powell Law, Bayes Theorem, Golden Rule, Fishbone Diagram, Murphy Law, Oakham Law, Pareto Law, sturgeon Law and other thinking models, which teach us how to think faster, wiser and more comprehensively and empower our thinking. Thinking mode is always one step ahead!

Thinking mode is like providing a treasure map for people who are looking for treasure in the forest, providing instant understanding and the path for readers to reach their final destination.

About the author:

Peter Hollins is a best-selling author, a researcher of human psychology and a full-time researcher of human condition.

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The logic of failure: Why things go wrong? Is there a smart plan in the world?

Douban score: 7.9

Content introduction:

Why does the train crash when the railway signal system works normally? Why do all operators keep on guard, and the nuclear reactor will still have a catastrophic meltdown accident? Why do many career and personal plans that we have done so well often go wrong?

Dietrich Dellner, the German winner of the highest scientific prize, is here to consider why-assuming that we have all the intelligence, experience and information-we will still make mistakes, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Surprisingly, he found that the answer to the question was not negligence or carelessness, but what he called "the logic of failure": some tendencies in our thinking mode, such as doing only one thing at a time, causality and linear thinking, applied to the simple world in the past, but had a disastrous impact on the complex world we live in now. In today's world, everything is interrelated. We can't just do one thing at a time, because everything has multiple results; We can't consider the problem in an isolated causal model, because all situations have side effects and long-term effects.

Dellner found many examples for us. Why did the planners of Aswan Dam only want to bring the benefits of cheap electricity to Egypt, but didn't realize that they would also interrupt the annual flood irrigation that kept the Nile Valley fertile for thousands of years? Why can't the planners of the Third World Health Program realize that increasing life expectancy requires increasing food supply, thus unintentionally ending the donation to the hungry?

Dellner pointed out that taking action before knowing all the interrelated factors in a complex system, even if we have good intentions, will inevitably make a big mistake. In the face of problems beyond our power, small mistakes accumulate and eventually lead to serious wrong conclusions. Too often, we ignore the overall situation of the problem and only seek expedient measures within the scope of what we know how to do-this can only be a drop in the bucket to no avail.

Dellner used his own fascinating computer simulation program to reveal these defects in our thinking. His examples-sometimes happy, sometimes scary-and his thinking experiment of "combing the brain" made us realize how to deal with complex problems. These examples make this book a corrective tool, a guide to wise planning and decision-making, and improve the thinking skills of business managers, decision makers and everyone in the face of this and other daily challenges. This book will change our view of change and improve our judgment on the road to success.

About the author:

Dietrich Dellner.

Professor of Psychology at Bamberg University and Director of Cognitive Anthropology Program at Max Planck Institute. An authority in the field of cognitive behavior, winner of Leibniz Prize, Germany's highest scientific prize 1986. He has published monographs such as Cognitive Structure in Problem Solving, Problem Solving as Information Reprocessing, Lawson: Dealing with Uncertainty and Complexity, Psychology, etc., and published more than 60 papers/kloc-0 in the fields of thinking, aesthetics, human emotion, problem solving, planning, choice and methodology.