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Books like The Art of Thinking Clearly

The best books like The Art of Thinking Clearly are Thinking, Fast and Slow, You Are Not So Smart, and The Undoing Project. The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli is about cognitive bias, decision-making, logical fallacies. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

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  2. You Are Not So Smart
    You Are Not So Smart

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    You Are Not So Smart

    David McRaney · Psychology

    David McRaney is a journalist who started a blog called "You Are Not So Smart" about self-delusion in 2009, and turned it into this book in 2011.

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  3. The Undoing Project
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    The Undoing Project

    Michael Lewis · Psychology

    Michael Lewis came to this subject sideways.

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  1. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
    Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

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    Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

    Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein · Psychology

    Bias gets most of the attention in discussions of judgment error.

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  2. Predictably Irrational
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    Predictably Irrational

    Dan Ariely · Psychology

    Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.

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  3. Mind Over Money
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    Mind Over Money

    Claudia Hammond · Psychology

    Mind Over Money is Claudia Hammond's survey of the research on how people actually think about, feel about, and make decisions with money — which turns out to be considerably less rational than economic theory assumes.

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  4. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
    Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

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    Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

    Richard H. Thaler · Psychology

    Richard Thaler is one of the founders of behavioral economics, the field that took the anomalies in standard economic theory seriously rather than dismissing them as noise.

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  5. Dollars and Sense
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    Dollars and Sense

    Dan Ariely · Psychology

    Dollars and Sense is Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler's examination of why people consistently make bad financial decisions even when they have the information and intention to do otherwise.

    Shares decision-making and behavioral economics with The Art of Thinking Clearly.

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  6. Fooled by Randomness
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    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology

    Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.

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  7. Irrationality
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    Irrationality

    Stuart Sutherland · Psychology

    Irrationality is Stuart Sutherland's rigorous and often mordant survey of the ways human beings consistently fail to reason well.

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  8. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
    Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

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    Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

    Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky · Psychology

    Judgment Under Uncertainty is the academic anthology that launched a research program.

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  9. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
    Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

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    Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

    Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir · Psychology

    Scarcity is Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir's argument that the experience of having too little — of any resource — produces a predictable cognitive syndrome with consequences that extend far beyond the original deficit.

    Shares decision-making and behavioral economics with The Art of Thinking Clearly.

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Books like The Art of Thinking Clearly: quick answers

What are the best books like The Art of Thinking Clearly?

The best books like The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Art of Thinking Clearly, such as cognitive bias, decision-making, logical fallacies.

What should I read after The Art of Thinking Clearly?

A natural next read after The Art of Thinking Clearly is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Art of Thinking Clearly. Other strong choices are You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein.

What books are similar to The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli?

The Art of Thinking Clearly centers on cognitive bias, decision-making, logical fallacies. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Mind Over Money by Claudia Hammond — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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