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Loserthink: how untrained brains are ruining the World

✍ Scribed by Adams, Scott

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Portfolio/Penguin
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 405 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 0593086333

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✦ Synopsis

What is loserthink?
If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed there are a lot of dumb ideas floating around out there.
"We know when history will repeat and when it won't."
"We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences."
"The simplest explanation is usually true."
"Stay in your channel."
Wrong, wrong, dangerous, and wrong!
These false beliefs are the result of what Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic and a lifelong student of group psychology, calls loserthink. Loserthink is the epidemic of sneaky mental habits trapping its victims in their own bubbles of reality. Even the smartest and most educated among us can slip into its seductive grasp. If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, any form of gun control is a slippery slope to full...

✦ Subjects

Thought and thinking

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