Thinking Makes Sense: How the Mind Reasons, Predicts and Gets Things Wrong

By: May, Daniel

Why does your mind sometimes reach the right answer before you can explain why - and confidently get other things completely wrong?

Thinking Makes Sense explores how human thought actually works: not as a perfect logical machine, but as a collection of processes designed to operate with limited time, attention, knowledge and certainty.

Daniel May takes you through intuition and deliberate reasoning, attention, prediction, mental shortcuts, cognitive bias, emotion, language and the powerful influence of other people on the way we think.

Along the way, the book challenges familiar misconceptions about the mind. Emotion is not simply the enemy of reason. Cognitive biases are not just defects waiting to be eliminated. And recognising a thinking error does not automatically make us immune to it.

Clear, accessible and grounded in psychological research, Thinking Makes Sense shows why intelligent people can make poor judgments, why shortcuts are often useful, and what the evidence really tells us about learning to think better.

Your mind isn't a flawless logician - but that doesn't mean its mistakes are meaningless. Once we understand what thinking is trying to accomplish, even its strange failures begin to make sense.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJWK9PDT
• ISBN13: 9798174403635
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"