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The Art of Thinking Clearly

Neo’s Notes
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This amazing book provides an encyclopedic list of cognitive biases that we are vulnerable to. These biases could become sources of minor brain farts as well as causes of major mental bullshit. It is an informative and entertaining read! Below are notes I wrote on each one of them that use a mix of AI and human-generated content that I use for my own personal learning, as well as some personal takeaways at the time of reading.
  1. Survivorship Bias
  2. Swimmer’s Body Illusion
  3. Clustering Illusion
  4. Social Proof
  5. Sunk Cost Bias
  6. Reciprocity
  7. Confirmation Bias
  8. Authority Bias
  9. Contrast Effect
  10. Availability Bias
  11. It-will-get-worse-before-it-gets-better Bias
  12. Story Bias
  13. Hindsight Bias
  14. Overconfidence Effect
  15. Chauffeur Knowledge
  16. Illusion of Control
  17. Incentives Super-Response Tendency
  18. Regression to Mean Bias
  19. Success Monkey Bias
  20. Paradox of Choice
  21. Liking Bias
  22. Endowment Effect
  23. The Birthday Problem — Coincidence
  24. Groupthink
  25. Neglect of Probability
  26. Scarcity Error
  27. Observer Effect
  28. Neglect of Baseline
  29. Gambler’s Fallacy
  30. The Anchor Effect
  31. The Problem of Induction
  32. Loss Aversion
  33. Social Loafing
  34. Exponential Growth
  35. Winner’s Curse
  36. Fundamental Attribution Error
  37. False Causality
  38. Halo Effect
  39. Alternative Path
  40. False Prophecies — Utilities of Bullshit Predictions
  41. Framing
  42. Action Bias
  43. Omission Bias
  44. Self-Serving Bias
  45. Hedonic Treadmill
  46. Self-Selection Bias
  47. Association Bias
  48. Beginner’s Luck
  49. Cognitive Dissonance
  50. Hyperbolic Discounting
  51. “Because” Bias
  52. Decision Fatigue
  53. Contagion Effect
  54. Effort Justification
  55. The Problem of Average
  56. Motivation Crowding
  57. Twaddle Tendency
  58. Law of Small Number
  59. Will Rogers Phenomenon
  60. Information Bias
  61. Rosenthal Effect — Pygmalion Effect
  62. Simple Logic and the CRT Score
  63. Forer Effect
  64. Comparative Advantage
  65. Volunteer’s Folly
  66. Affect Heuristic
  67. Introspection Illusion
  68. Inability to Close Doors
  69. Neomania
  70. Sleeper Effect
  71. Alternative Blindness
  72. Social Comparison Bias
  73. Primary & Recency Effect
  74. Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
  75. The Black Swan
  76. Domain Dependence
  77. False-Consensus Effect
  78. Falsification of History
  79. In-Group Out-Group Bias
  80. Ambiguity Aversion
  81. Default Effect
  82. Fear of Regret
  83. Salience Effect
  84. House-Money Effect
  85. Procrastination
  86. Envy & Jealousy
  87. Personification
  88. Illusion of Attention
  89. Strategic Misrepresentation
  90. Overthinking
  91. Planning Fallacy
  92. Deformation Professionnelle
     — Worldly Wisdom
  93. Zeigarnik Effect
  94. Illusion of Skill
  95. Feature-Positive Effect
  96. Cherry Picking
  97. Fallacy of the Single Cause
  98. Intention-to-Treat Error
  99. News Illusion
  100. Epilogue