We tend to blame one thing, or one person when something bad happens. But usually, there’s more going on. The book focuses on 99 fallacies of human thinking errors. The book is not about how to think rather how not to think. It is pretty interesting how we think and how much it is wrong. And the author points out ninety-nine wrong thinking and why they are wrong. The whole book is enriched with real-life examples that is we can relate to our life. Money comes wrapped in emotions. Monet won incidentally, as against earned through hard work, is more likely to be spent erratically - though it is illogical because the money is the same. This can be prevented if you have a clear financial plan with you. Tenley E. Albright, Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives and Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

The concept of "social loafing." When someone is working on something alone, they typically work harder than if they are working on the same thing in a group. For example, in a tug of war, the more people you add to the repo, the less hard each one pulls. The less your individual contribution is noticed, the less effort you put in. This is a critical lesson for management and team building. For example, if you want to lose weight so you can feel comfortable around other people when you’re without your t-shirt on, it will be much easier to not do certain things at first: not eating junk food, not missing a workout, not filling your refrigerator with microwave food. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn’t read the news for a decade. Like it or not, our brains are a mishmash of shortcuts and rules-of-thumb that helped our ancient ancestors avoid becoming lion lunch and stay alive long enough to pass on these traits to posterity.Sometimes you don’t need to get a complete 360-degree view of the situation. Actually, a lot of times, when something important needs to be decided, it’s best to remain on your own. With your own thoughts to make your mind. To be fair, it is clear that Dobelli is well-read in this field. He has done his research (even if the “note on sources” section frustratingly places the sources under headings by the bias name but not the chapter number, and there is nary an endnote to be seen). It’s clear, judging from the number of times he quotes from or references Thinking, Fast and Slow, that he has been heavily influenced by the work of Daniel Kahneman. In fact, one could say that The Art of Thinking Clearly is little more than attempt to distil the biases and only the biases mentioned in Thinking, Fast and Slow and similar such books. You can then think how to apply them to areas of your life that could be improved. I used them to think more clearly about my creative output, both with my camera and on this blog. For example, studies have shown that 84 percent of Frenchmen consider themselves to be above-average lovers. In reality, it’s only possible for 50 percent to be considered “above average,” since, statistically speaking, 50 percent should rank higher and the other half should rank lower. If you are not a part of the solution, you are definitely a part of the problem. There is no 3rd category of passive onlookers.

One of the first things I heard in my years in Business School, one that I have never forgotten was something a professor once said, “In Management, only results count. Efforts don’t.” Not a how-to book to an error-free life but still a very good classification of behavioral and cognitive errors. Whether we like it or not, we are puppets of our emotions. We make complex decisions by consulting our feelings, not our thoughts. Against our best intentions, we substitute the question, “What do I think about this?” with “How do I feel about this?” So, smile! Your future depends on it.” Rolf DobelliStill, if you’re a fan of behavior patterns you’ll most probably find this book kind of boring. The author is simply listing the most common thinking concepts and reinforcing his points with already known (at least to people who are familiar with the ideas) examples. These blinks will explain some of the main traps you probably fall into every single day, and along the way will provide you with tips on how to steer your way around them and start thinking clearly. And finally, you’ll find out that you might not want to trust yourself to spot a gorilla, even if it’s standing right in front of you!