Loserthink, How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America by Adams, Scott -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Chapter 1: What Is Loserthink?

My Qualifications

Chapter 2: Political Warming Chapter 3: Thinking Like a Psychologist

The Mind Reading Illusion Occam’s Razor Projection The Ego Problem Focusing on What Is Wrong

Chapter 4: Thinking Like an Artist Chapter 5: Thinking Like an Historian

Does History Repeat? “History Repeats” The Slippery Slope Privacy Is Overrated

Chapter 6: Thinking Like an Engineer

Separating Cause and Solution One-Variable Illusion

Chapter 7: Thinking Like a Leader

The Directional Truth Filter Confusing Hyperbole with Legitimate Opinion System Versus Goals

Chapter 8: Thinking Like a Scientist

Anecdotal Evidence Ask Yourself: “What if the Opposite Is True?” Judging a Group by Its Worst Members Proving a Negative

Chapter 9: Thinking Like an Entrepreneur

Staying in Your Lane Personal Control Humility and Testing

Chapter 10: Thinking Like an Economist

Ends Justify the Means How to Compare Things Halfpinions Time Value of Money Consider the Alternatives Confusopolies Straight-Line Predictions

Chapter 11: Things Pundits Say That You Should Not Copy

Moral Equivalency Word-Thinking The Hypocrisy Defense Fairness Feels-The-Same Friction Mentioning Is Not Comparing “Do Your Own Research” “Be Yourself” “Coward!” “Apologist!” and Words Like That “Why Didn’t You Do It Sooner?”

Chapter 12: The Golden Age Filter

Poverty and Overpopulation End of Unsolved Crime World Peace Climate Change End of Unemployment Healthcare Innovations Race Relations

Chapter 13: How to Break Out of Your Mental Prison

My Mental Prison Breaks Cultural Gravity Knowing Where to Start Unfocused Priorities Context Listening to the Experts Fake News Filter Persuasion Managing Embarrassment Change What You Do to Change How You Think Judging the Mistake Versus the Response The Forty-eight-Hour Rule and the Twenty-Year Rule Conspiracy Theories and How to Know You Fell for One How to Know if You Are in a Cult

Chapter 14: How to Break Others Out of Their Mental Prisons

The Magic Question Pacing Define the Weeds Describe the Long Term Call Out the Mind Reading Framing Issues

Chapter 15: A Final Word Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Author