Chapter 1 Decision Making Shapes Your Life
Chapter 2 The Search for Rationality
Chapter 3 Why It’s Hard to Be Rational
Part II How Do You Make Decisions?
Chapter 4 What’s Your Decision Style?
Chapter 5 Are You a Risk-Taker?
Chapter 6 Are You a Maximizer or Satisficer?
Chapter 7 Who Controls Your Destiny?
Chapter 8 Do You Procrastinate?
Chapter 10 Can You Control Your Emotions?
Chapter 11 Are You Overconfident?
Chapter 12 Understanding Your Personality Profile
Part III Common Biases and Errors That Most of Us Make (and How to Overcome Them)
Chapter 13 How Can You Be So Darn Sure About That? Coping with Overconfidence
Chapter 14 Never Do Today That Which You Can Do Tomorrow: The Inertia Bias
Chapter 15 I Want It, and I Want It NOW! The Immediate Gratification Bias
Chapter 16 Where You End Up Depends on Where You Start: The Anchoring Effect
Chapter 17 I’ll See It When I Believe It: The Selective Perception Bias
Chapter 18 I Hear What I Want to Hear: The Confirmation Bias
Chapter 19 Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The Framing Bias
Chapter 20 What Have You Done for Me Lately? The Availability Bias
Chapter 21 Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Representation Bias
Chapter 22 Seeing Patterns That Aren’t There: Coping with Randomness
Chapter 23 I Only Like Change That Jingles in My Pocket: The Familiarity Bias
Chapter 24 Gone Is Not Always Forgotten: Understanding Sunk Costs
Chapter 25 Keep It Simple: The Limited Search Error
Chapter 26 Losing Your Head in the Heat of Battle: The Emotional Involvement Error
Chapter 27 Who You Gonna Blame? The Self-Serving Bias
Chapter 28 Novelty Wears Off: The Adaptation Bias
Chapter 29 I Knew It All the Time: The Hindsight Bias
Part IV Advice Your Mother Never Gave You
Chapter 30 Clear Goals and Preferences Make Choosing a Lot Easier
Chapter 31 Sometimes Doing Nothing Is Your Best Option
Chapter 32 Choosing Not to Decide Is Still a Decision
Chapter 33 Decisions Are Not Made in Isolation
Chapter 34 All Decisions Aren’t Important
Chapter 35 More Information Isn’t Necessarily Better
Chapter 36 You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing
Chapter 37 Don’t Rehash Past Decisions
Chapter 38 Successful People Take Risks
Chapter 39 It’s Okay to Make Mistakes, or No One Has an Undefeated Season
Chapter 40 Experience Can Improve Decisions, But...
Chapter 41 Where You’re from Influences How You Decide