Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

✍ Scribed by Zachary Shore

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder reveals how understanding seven simple traps-Exposure Anxiety, Causefusion, Flat View, Cure-Allism, Infomania, Mirror Imaging, Static Cling-can make us all less apt to err in our daily lives.

✦ Subjects

History, Sociology, Nonfiction, HIS000000, SOC000000

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