Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Audiobook (Free)
- Scott Adams
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-11-05
Summary:
Through the creator of Dilbert and author of Win Bigly, helpful information to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of actuality.
If you have been on social media lately, or fired up your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb suggestions floating around.
‘We know when history will repeat and when it will not.’
‘We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences.’
‘The simplest explanation is normally true.’
Wrong, wrong, and dangerous!
If we’re not about Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America careful, loserthink could have us think that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for mending the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open.
Actually the smartest people can put on loserthink’s seductive grasp. This publication will teach you how to spot and avoid it–and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned close friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits. You can also learn how to identify the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to obtain ego out of the decisions, thinking with words rather than reasons, failing woefully to imagine alternate explanations, and producing too much of coincidences.
Your bubble of reality doesn’t have to be a prison. This book will show you how to break free–and, also, to become among the most perceptive and reputed thinkers in every conversation.
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