📗 Libro en inglés A BRIEF GUIDE TO SMART THINKING

Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader while a Speed Read for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question The titles covered include thought provoking classics on psychology mindfulness rationality the brain mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy The selection includes books about self improvement as well as historically interesting accounts of how the mind works Titles included go back as far as the Epictetus classic The Enchiridion and Bertrand Russell s charming The ABC of Relativity and proceed through classics such as Edward de Bono s Lateral Thinking and into the digital era with titles such as The Shallows and Big Data The books are arranged chronologically which draws attention to some of the interesting juxtapositions and connections between them Some of the titles included are Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari The Organized Mind Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J Levitin The Descent of Man by Grayson Per