Ask this book a question An interactive journey to find wisdom for life's big and little decisions
Book - 2025
"An exploration into better decision-making, grounded in the science of cognitive bias and the wisdom of storytelling Ask This Book A Question arrives like a trusted friend, one who knows that decision-making is less about unlocking secrets and more about understanding the quiet ways we navigate uncertainty. Through a series of visual prompts, the book maps the invisible geography of our minds-from our perception of time to our tendency to remember the bizarre over the familiar to the shortcuts we take when avoiding difficult truths. This guide isn't a manual for optimization or a promise of quick, definitive answers. Instead, it's a companion for anyone who has ever felt stuck under the weight of too many choices, offering a... thoughtful way to sit with questions"--
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- Subjects
- Published
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New York, NY :
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xxv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780593716960
- Preface
- Introduction
- How to Use This Book
- Questions
- Topic
- Timing
- Blockers
- A Big List of Questions
- Stories
- Charlie the Dog
- Buoyancy
- Mapo Tofu
- Yancey's Mustache
- Hanger Math
- Trim Grass
- Hsu Ken's Dad
- Trees
- Memory-Foam Pillow
- Slow Shopping
- Airport Optimism
- Good at Quitting
- Newness
- Full Circle
- The Rickshaw
- Doomscrolling
- Invariables
- Futureless
- Pentel 0.5mm Lead
- Biases
- Affective Forecasting
- Ambiguity Effect
- Anchoring Effect
- Appeal to Novelty
- Appeal to Probability
- Attentional Bias
- Availability Bias
- Bizarreness Effect
- Cathedral Effect
- Change Blindness
- Clustering Illusion
- Confirmation Bias
- Denomination Effect
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Effort Justification
- Endowment Effect
- Focusing Illusion
- Functional Fixedness
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- Halo Effect
- Hindsight Bias
- Hyperbolic Discounting
- Illusion of Control
- Illusory Truth Effect
- In-Group Bias
- Isolated Choice Effect
- Loss Aversion
- Mental Accounting
- Normalcy Bias
- Optimism Bias
- Peak-End Rule
- Post-Purchase Rationalization
- Recency Effect
- Restraint Bias
- Self-Licensing Effect
- Status Quo Bias
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Survivorship Bias
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Biases