On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits

by Wray Herbert

Book Overview

Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don't want to rationally deliberate every choice we make, and thanks to these cognitive rules of thumb, we don't need to.

Yet these hard-wired shortcuts, mental wonders though they may...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307461645
• ISBN13: 9780307461643
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"