Published 2006 by Prometheus Books

Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking. Copyright © 2006 by Thomas Kida. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Kida, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1951–

Don't believe everything you think : the 6 basic mistakes we make in thinking / by Thomas Kida.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.

ISBN 978-1-59102-408-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-61592-005-1 (ebook)

1. Thought and thinking. 2. Error. I. Title.

BF441.K45 2006

153.4′2—dc22

2006003366

Printed in the United States on acid-free paper