Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Audiobook
Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Audiobook
- Scott Adams
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-11-05
- 6 h 59 min
Summary:
From your creator of Dilbert and writer of Win Bigly, helpful information to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality.
If you have been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a whole lot of dumb tips floating around.
‘We know when history will repeat so when it will not.’
‘We can inform the difference between proof and coincidences.’
‘The simplest explanation is usually true.’
Wrong, wrong, and dangerous!
If we’re not about Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America careful, loserthink could have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts ought to be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, which your romantic relationship fell apart simply because you chewed together with your mouth open.
Even the smartest people can put on loserthink’s seductive grasp. This publication will educate you on how to place and avoid it–and will give you scripts to respond when hollow quarrels are getting brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned close friends, strangers on the web, or politics pundits. You can also learn how to spot the underlying factors behind loserthink, just like the incapability to get ego out of the decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine choice explanations, and making too much of coincidences.
Your bubble of reality doesn’t have to be always a prison. This publication will highlight how to break free–and, what’s more, to become being among the most perceptive and reputed thinkers in every conversation.