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Irracional - O que leva pessoas inteligentes a tomarem decisões erradas
Rom Brafman, Ori Brafman
3.54 AVERAGE
122 reviews for:
Irracional - O que leva pessoas inteligentes a tomarem decisões erradas
Rom Brafman, Ori Brafman
3.54 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
informative
medium-paced
storytelling instead of experiments. Light touch for the not too inquiring.
informative
This was a fast and fascinating read. The authors do a great job of taking real research and weaving it into a narrative and making it applicable to everyday life. It reminded me of Freakonomics in the way it made research results from around the world fun and accessible. They end the book with a quick review of how the lessons can be remembered and applied in the reader's own thinking patterns. Good stuff.
I really enjoyed this non-fiction book. Explores why we behave as we do. Fascinating.
This book had a lot of interesting anecdotes and stories and a lot of research that the authors did (none original - this synthesizes a lot of other people's research into a new thesis without doing any original research themselves). However, I remember very little of it now that I'm thinking back trying to sum it up and say what I thought. I remember something about an airplane that crashed because the pilot didn't wait for okay from control. We went back to that several times between all the other research avenues. But ultimately, there wasn't really a lot tying this book together. When the epilogue tried to remind me of some of the research discussed in the early parts of the book, I was scratching my head and trying to remember any of it, but I really couldn't. So... interesting premise, not very well written book which should have had more threads running through the book or something?
informative
medium-paced
Not a brilliant book. If you are interested in this subject I recommend you reading far better books by researchers (authors are not researchers) such as "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" by Dan Ariely or "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kanehman.
"Sway" is entertaining but lacks substance. It is mostly a long collection of stories.
Another downside for readers across this flat world: the book is for USA readers. For example the book assumes you are familiar with details of how NBA players are chosen by teams. It also abuses of acronyms, sometimes explained but not others. For example you are left alone to recognize what/who is LBJ. Wait I give you the context where LBJ is introduced to the reader: "If 1950s politics was like an episode of Survivor, LBJ was surely the hands-down winner." Clear now ? :-)
LBJ = USA president Lyndon B. Johnson. Of course!
"Sway" is entertaining but lacks substance. It is mostly a long collection of stories.
Another downside for readers across this flat world: the book is for USA readers. For example the book assumes you are familiar with details of how NBA players are chosen by teams. It also abuses of acronyms, sometimes explained but not others. For example you are left alone to recognize what/who is LBJ. Wait I give you the context where LBJ is introduced to the reader: "If 1950s politics was like an episode of Survivor, LBJ was surely the hands-down winner." Clear now ? :-)
LBJ = USA president Lyndon B. Johnson. Of course!
interesting stories, intriguing concepts. what does rationality and the awareness of it have to do in our lives? i would ask, should everything in life be completely rational? but that may lead me to the philosophy of things, i suppose.
an introduction of stories and studies that stuck with me and will probably stick with me for a long time.
in brief, the most i took out of it is the concept of "personal construct theory": where we are most irrational when we focus on only one possibility and a "single interpretation of a situation or person," linked with the application of "propositional thinking": to hold evaluations "tentatively," to remain flexible to information that is complex and ever changing.
an introduction of stories and studies that stuck with me and will probably stick with me for a long time.
in brief, the most i took out of it is the concept of "personal construct theory": where we are most irrational when we focus on only one possibility and a "single interpretation of a situation or person," linked with the application of "propositional thinking": to hold evaluations "tentatively," to remain flexible to information that is complex and ever changing.
This book is in my wheelhouse, I tend to go for psych non fiction books & find rationalism/group dynamics/ loss aversion etc really interesting.
Some of this stuff is obvious, once you think about it, but that's kind of the point - you have to think about it in order for it to have less of an effect on you.
Fun, engaging, quick read.
Some of this stuff is obvious, once you think about it, but that's kind of the point - you have to think about it in order for it to have less of an effect on you.
Fun, engaging, quick read.