The Digital Renaissance: Review: How Our Brains Betray Us: Change the Way you Think and Make Better Decisions by Understanding the Cognitive Biases and Heuristics that Destroy Our lives!

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Review: How Our Brains Betray Us: Change the Way you Think and Make Better Decisions by Understanding the Cognitive Biases and Heuristics that Destroy Our lives!

How Our Brains Betray Us: Change the Way you Think and Make Better Decisions by Understanding the Cognitive Biases and Heuristics that Destroy Our lives! by Magnus McDaniels

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A current survey of our various mental foibles and biases that influence how we process the world around us. It was well researched and presented, with an explanation of how the bias is and how/why it works that way it does … including what the evolutionary advantage was. The bonus material after each explanation, are tips and tricks to limit the [negative] impact on our decision making … which seemed fairly reasonable to me, typically consisting of slowing down and being more deliberative. Knowing about these biases and fallacies, we might be able to examine where these might not actually fit the facts and so correct any erroneous assumptions/presumptions. Bottomline, it was a lot better than I expected it would be (there is also a pdf that comes with the Audible that is helpful as well).

1. Survivorship Bias

2. Confirmation Bias

3. Availability Heuristic

4. Loss Aversion Bias (Prospect Theory)

5. Hindsight Bias

6. Anchoring Bias (Priming)

7. Egocentric Bias

8. Pygmalion Effect Bias

9. Halo Effect Bias

10. Decision Fatigue Bias

11. Sunk Cost Fallacy

12. Reciprocation Tendency

13. William Poundstone (2016)

14. The Ben Franklin Effect

15. Cognitive Dissonance

16. Decoy Effect

17.. The Spotlight Effect

18. The Ikea Effect

19. (False Attribution Bias)

20. Bandwagon Effect

21. Framing Effect

22. Extension Neglect

23. Zero Risk

24. Ostrich Effect

25. Naive Realism

26. Self-Servicing Bias

27. Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

28. Plan Continuation Bias

29. The Gambler’s Fallacy

30, Curse of Knowledge Bias

31. The Law of Small Numbers

32. Social Proof

33. Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

34. The Lollapalooza Tendency

I was given this free advance listener copy (ALC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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[ ***** ] Amazing Read - Perfect story, exciting, engrossing, well developed complex characters, solid plot with few to no holes, descriptive environments and place settings, great mystery elements, realistic dialogue, believable reactions and behaviors; a favorite that I can re-read many times.
[ **** ] Great Read - Highly entertaining and enjoyable, exciting storyline, well developed characters and settings, a few discrepancies but nothing that can’t be overlooked. Some aspect of the story was new/refreshing to me and/or intriguing. Recommended for everyone.
[ *** ] Good Read - Solid story with a 'good' ending, or has some other redeeming feature. Limited character development and/or over reliance on tropes. Noticeable discrepancies in world building and/or dialog/behavior that were distracting. I connected enough with the characters/world to read the entire series. Most of the books I read for fun are here. Recommended for fans of the genre.
[ ** ] Okay Read - Suitable for a brief, afternoon escape … flat or shallow characters with little to no development. Over the top character dialog and/or behavior. Poor world building with significant issues and/or mistakes indicating poor research. Excessive use of trivial detail, info dumps and/or pontification. Any issues with the story/characters are offset by some other aspect that I enjoyed. Not very memorable. May only appeal to a niche group of readers. Recommended for some (YMMV).
[ * ] Bad Read - Awkward and/or confusing writing style. Poor world building and/or unbelievable (or unlikeable) characters. Victimization, gaslighting, blatant abuse, unnecessary violence, child endangerment, or any other highly objectionable behaviors by Main characters. I didn't connect with the story at all; significant aspects of this story irritated me enough that I struggled to finished it. Series was abandoned. Not recommended.