Books like Why so stupid? by Edward de Bono

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

On new thought.

Rolf Dobelli presents 99 concise chapters that explain everyday cognitive biases, showing how awareness can sharpen decision‑making at work and in life.

Learn to rethink problems and make smarter decisions with unconventional thinking techniques.

Tony Buzan’s The Mind Map Book explains how to harness the brain’s pattern of perception and association to improve learning, memory, creativity, and note‑taking skills through mind mapping techniques.

Discover the answers to life's most perplexing questions with Sway

Edward de Bono shares insights on critical thinking, perceptions, and creative thinking tools in his latest book, the Thinking Course, designed to enhance one's thinking skills.

A textbook of creativity

We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point. From colonialism to globalization, from gender wars to civil wars, or any circumstance for which our best solutions backfire, Shore demonstrates how rigid thinking can subtly lead us to undermine ourselves. In the process, he identifies seven "cognition traps" to avoid. But he also emphasizes how understanding these seven simple cognition traps can help us all make wiser judgments in our daily lives. For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder shines the penetrating spotlight of history on decision making and the patterns of thought that can lead us all astray.--From publisher description.