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100 _a Adams, Scott
245 _aLoserthink :
_bHow untrained brains are ruining the world
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260 _a [New York] :
_bPortfolio/Penguin,
_c©2019
300 _a 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
500 _athe book has very good intentions. The power and prevalence of propaganda, and the ease of falling into an echo-chamber have both exploded in the last two decades.
505 _a What is loserthink? -- Political warming -- Thinking like a psychologist -- Thinking like an artist -- Thinking like an historian -- Thinking like an engineer -- Thinking like a leader -- Thinking like a scientist -- Thinking like an entrepreneur -- Thinking like an economist -- Things pundits say that you should not copy -- The golden age filter -- How to break out of your mental prison -- How to break others out of their mental prisons -- A final word.
520 _a "No matter how smart or well-informed you are, you're probably trapped in a mental prison without knowing it. Scott Adams, the world-famous creator of Dilbert and New York Times bestselling author of Win Bigly, teaches us how to recognize and avoid the "loserthink" that prevents us from seeing outside our own bubbles of reality"--
650 _a Thought and thinking. Divergent thinking. Reasoning.
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