{"product_id":"blunder-why-smart-people-make-bad-decisions-9781596912427","title":"Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe all make bad decisions. Its part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable  the story goes  because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no  not always  and he has a long list of examples to prove his point.  From colonialism to globalization  from gender wars to civil wars  or any circumstance for which our best solutions backfire  Shore demonstrates how rigid thinking can subtly lead us to undermine ourselves. In the process  he identifies seven \"cognition traps\" to avoid. These insidious yet unavoidable mind-sets include:  -Exposure Anxiety: fear of being seen as weak  -Causefusion: confusing the causes of complex events  -Flat View: seeing the world in one dimension  -Cure-Allism: thinking that one-size solutions can solve all problems  -Infomania: an obsessive relationship to information  -Mirror Imaging: thinking the other side thinks like you do  -Static Cling: the refusal to accept that circumstances have changed  Drawing on examples from history  politics  business and economics  health care  even folk tales and popular culture  Shore illustrates the profound impact blunders can have. But he also emphasizes how understanding these seven simple cognition traps can help us all make wiser judgments in our daily lives.  For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking  Blunder shines the penetrating spotlight of history on decision making and the patterns of thought that can lead us all astray.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651857309749,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596912421","price":34.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596912427.jpg?v=1781842408","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blunder-why-smart-people-make-bad-decisions-9781596912427","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}