Critical-thinking skills are crucial for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Man Harrison shows in an in depth fashion how exactly to sort through bad ideas, unfounded claims, and bogus information to drill right down to one of the most salient specifics. By explaining how the human brain functions, and outing its most irrational processes, this book provides the thinking tools that may help you make smarter decisions, question about Good Thinking: What you ought to Know to become Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, And Wiser the proper questions (at the right time), know very well what to look for when evaluating information, and understand how your own mind subconsciously clouds your judgment.

Believe you’re too smart to be easily misled? Harrison summarizes scientific research displaying how easily also intelligent and well-educated people could be fooled. We all have problems with cognitive biases, embellished recollections, and the propensity to kowtow to expert figures or become duped by dubious ‘truths’ packed in appealing tales. And as primates we are normally status seekers, so we are inclined to irrational values that appear to enhance our feeling of owed and ranking. Emotional impulses and tension also all too often business lead us into traps of misperception and bad judgment.

Understanding what science has discovered about the mind enables you to better equipped to handle its built-in pitfalls. Great Thinking–the book and the practice– makes apparent that with knowledge and the proper thinking skills, anyone can lead a safer, wiser, more efficient, and productive life.