Thinking 101: Lessons on How To Transform Your Thinking and Your Life

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In Thinking 101 you can transform your life with clear actionable steps to overcome challenges and biases in your thinking, from renowned Yale psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn. We all make thinking errors more often than we wish; we misjudge, mispredict and misunderstand things happening around us. Some of these reasoning errors are now well-known, such as confirmation bias, planning fallacy, or loss aversion. And yet merely learning that these errors happen and what their names are rarely help us avoid them. Thinking 101 offers specific ways to correct them by offering down-to-earth answers as to how or why these errors occur. Woo-kyoung Ahn, an acclaimed professor of Psychology at Yale, teaches these strategies to her students in what quickly became one of the college's most popular courses. Now, for the first time, she is presenting key insights from her years of teaching and research in a book for everyone. Throughout, Ahn draws on decades of research from other cognitive psychologists, as well as from her own ground-breaking studies. Thinking 101 is a book that goes far beyond other books on thinking, showing how through better awareness of our biases we can improve not just our own daily lives, but the lives of everyone around us. It is, quite simply, required reading.

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Terrific. Ahn offers compelling, research-based ways to limit the unwanted impact of thinking problems -- Robert Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion
An invaluable resource to anyone who wants to think better. In remarkably clear language, and with engaging and often funny examples, Woo-kyoung Ahn uses cutting-edge research to explain the mistakes we often make and how to avoid them. -- Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project
Ahn uses wonderfully engaging examples to show how we can understand and improve our reasoning -- Anna Rosling Rnnlund, bestselling co-author of Factfulness

Thinking 101 is a must-read a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think. Building from her popular Yale course, Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn shows how a better understanding of how our minds work can help us become smarter and wiser and even kinder

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Thinking 101 combines the best science with practical advice to help you make better decisions. Ahns stories are spot-on, they are humorous, and they show us how thinking can be turned on itself to overcome the biases from, well, thinking! -- Mahzarin Banaji,Professor of Psychology, Harvard Universityand co-author of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Accessible, engaging, and fun to read. Woo-kyoung Ahn . . . uses entertaining stories and examples to compellingly illustrate why thinking errors happen, why it matters, and what to do about it -- Danny Oppenheimer, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Democracy Despite Itself
Ahns book is an absorbing, timely and I think essential guide to how our minds go wrong and what we can do to think better. With lots of humorous stories and cautionary thinking tales, this terrifically-written book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand and overcome the powerful yet invisible thinking traps that lead us astray -- Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast
This book is not just a lucid overview of the cognitive traps that wreak havoc on your reasoning its also an experts guide to rethinking how you think -- Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again

Author Bio

Woo-kyoung Ahn is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. After receiving her PhD in Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was Assistant Professor at Yale University and Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by NIH. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She absolutely loves teaching her Thinking course, one of the most popular classes at Yale.