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Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
- Narrado por: Steven Novella
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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Resumen del Editor
No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever.
These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life. By immersing yourself in the science of cognitive biases and critical thinking, and by learning how to think about thinking (a practice known as metacognition), you'll gain concrete lessons for doing so more critically, more intelligently, and more successfully.
The key to successful critical thinking lies in understanding the neuroscience behind how our thinking works - and goes wrong; avoiding common pitfalls and errors in thinking, such as logical fallacies and biases; and knowing how to distinguish good science from pseudoscience. Professor Novella tackles these issues and more, exploring how the (often unfamiliar) ways in which our brains are hardwired can distract and prevent us from getting to the truth of a particular matter.
Along the way, he provides you with a critical toolbox that you can use to better assess the quality of information. Even though the world is becoming more and more saturated information, you can take the initiative and become better prepared to make sense of it all with this intriguing course.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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Although clinical research has been conducted on narcissism as a disorder, less is known about its effects on victims who are in toxic relationships with partners with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Individuals with this disorder engage in chronic devaluation and manipulation of their partners, a psychological and emotional phenomenon known as "narcissistic abuse". Unfortunately, the full extent of what narcissistic abuse entails is not taught in any psychology class or diagnostic manual.
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Finally
- De zero en 12-08-16
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The Finnish Guide to Happiness
- De: Melanie Dower
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
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If you ask a Finn, they will likely be as baffled as you are. That’s why Melanie Dower, an expat who has been living in Finland for the past decade, has taken up the charge. Her vantage as an outsider entrenched in Finnish culture uniquely positions her to identify the keys to Finnish happiness that elude the rest of the world and that Finns take for granted. From sauna to strong social safety nets, Finnish life is made up of a constellation of habits and structures that leave its residents relaxed, healthy, and fulfilled.
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Finland sounds like heaven!
- De Carol Cover en 09-16-24
De: Melanie Dower
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The Antidote
- Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
- De: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrado por: Oliver Burkeman
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy. And that there is an alternative "negative path" to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid.
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The Antidote explores the negative path.
- De Bonny en 05-15-14
De: Oliver Burkeman
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The Gift of Fear
- Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
- De: Gavin de Becker
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These days, no one in America feels immune to violence. But now, in this extraordinary, groundbreaking book, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior unlocks the puzzle of human violence and shows that, like every creature on earth, we have within us the ability to predict the harm others might do us and get out of its way. Contrary to popular myth, human violence almost always has a discernible motive and is preceded by clear warning signs.
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Decent book severely undermined by last chapter.
- De zachary en 11-01-22
De: Gavin de Becker
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Natural Rapid Weight Loss, Lose Weight Faster with Hypnosis, Meditation, and Affirmations
- The Sleep Learning System
- De: Joel Thielke
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Naturally lose weight fast and get the body you've been wanting. Stop old habits in their tracks, shed pounds now, and feel amazing. Rapid weight loss is yours today with this powerful guided meditation program from the Sleep Learning System and world-renowned hypnotherapist Joel Thielke.
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My new favorite hypnosis audio!
- De Penny en 04-03-16
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The Complete Guide to Fasting
- Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
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Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven't thought about - yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.
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Hard to get through
- De MCT en 06-03-17
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I wanted to like this course
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As an addict, I listened to this book. Very Helpfu
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An overlooked gem
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The power of an effective speech is undeniable. It has the capacity to engage, inform, motivate, and create change in an audience - and in the world. In this compelling 24-lesson course, How to Speak Effectively in Any Setting, taught by Molly Bishop Shadel, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, learn the fine art of speaking clearly, effectively, and persuasively in contexts across the spectrum, from the board room to the bar room and everywhere in between.
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Excessive Undertones of Author’s Personal Political Views
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Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about someone committing a violent, reprehensible, even evil, act. And each time it happens, before we know anything about the circumstances, we are already sure of one thing: We are nothing like that perpetrator. But how can we be so sure? After all, we are all human. In Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature, Professor Daniel Breyer takes us on a fascinating philosophical journey into many of the deepest and darkest questions that have engaged humanity for millennia.
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A Great Cross-Cultural Conversation
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Good for even a non-existentialist
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I wanted to like this course
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As an addict, I listened to this book. Very Helpfu
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An overlooked gem
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The power of an effective speech is undeniable. It has the capacity to engage, inform, motivate, and create change in an audience - and in the world. In this compelling 24-lesson course, How to Speak Effectively in Any Setting, taught by Molly Bishop Shadel, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, learn the fine art of speaking clearly, effectively, and persuasively in contexts across the spectrum, from the board room to the bar room and everywhere in between.
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Excessive Undertones of Author’s Personal Political Views
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Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about someone committing a violent, reprehensible, even evil, act. And each time it happens, before we know anything about the circumstances, we are already sure of one thing: We are nothing like that perpetrator. But how can we be so sure? After all, we are all human. In Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature, Professor Daniel Breyer takes us on a fascinating philosophical journey into many of the deepest and darkest questions that have engaged humanity for millennia.
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Good for even a non-existentialist
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Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.
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Great for beginners, nothing you for an economist
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Conventional wisdom suggests there is a sharp distinction between emotion and reason. Emotions are seen as inferior, disruptive, primitive, and even bestial forces. These 24 remarkable lectures suggest otherwise-that emotions have intelligence and provide personal strategies that are vitally important to our everyday lives of perceiving, evaluating, appraising, understanding, and acting in the world.
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Feel good and be good
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."
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One of my top 3 favorite courses!
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Understanding Cognitive Biases
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In Understanding Cognitive Biases, you will learn how to recognize biases for what they are, counteract them when necessary, and even use them to your advantage in some instances. In 24 fascinating lectures, Dr. Alexander B. Swan uses examples from psychology experiments, history, politics, movies, TV, comics, social media, and more to illustrate dozens of cognitive biases that affect us all.
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Interesting, informative and well organized
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Critical Thinking, Logic & Problem Solving
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Do you often find yourself grappling with complex decisions, feeling overwhelmed by the barrage of information in today's world? Are you at a loss when faced with debates, unsure how to dissect arguments or counter misinformation? Perhaps you've realized that in your professional or personal life, clear and critical thinking is not just an asset, but a necessity. Today the ability to dissect, analyze, and reason effectively has never been more crucial. Yet, for many, these skills remain just out of reach. This audiobook offers a straightforward advice and practical tips.
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Not Instructive and Not Recommended
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Scientific Secrets for a Powerful Memory
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Memory is, without a doubt, the most powerful (and practical) tool of everyday life. By linking both your past and your future, memory gives you the power to plan, to reason, to perceive, and to understand. Yet while all of us have an amazing capacity for memory, there are plenty of times when it seems to fail us. Why does this happen? And how can you fix it? In Scientific Secrets for a Powerful Memory, you’ll explore the real research on how memory functions - and then apply these findings to help you make better use of the memory abilities you have.
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good, but there are better books on these topics
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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room
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Taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.
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This should NOT be an audio book
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Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.
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Meh. Glad I didn't pay for it.
- De Paula en 07-23-22
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
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At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology.
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Audible’s Best Science Offering, A Gem
- De MikeB en 12-08-18
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Written Communications: Being Heard and Understood
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In the 12 rewarding lectures of Written Communications: Being Heard and Understood, Professor Allison Friederichs, associate teaching professor and the associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Denver, University College, will share the secrets to sharpening your written, oral, and interpersonal communications skills.
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Just Horrible
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Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life
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Social interactions and the impressions that drive them are vitally important aspects of human behavior. In this compelling course, learn about how we shape the impressions other people form of us - at work, at home, in our social lives, and in the world at large.
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Nuanced to the point of dry toast, but edible.
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Neuroscience of Everyday Life
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Your nervous system is you. All the thoughts, perceptions, moods, passions, and dreams that make you an active, sentient being are the work of this amazing network of cells. For many centuries, people knew this was true. But no one was sure how it happened. Now, thanks to the exciting new field of neuroscience, we can chart the workings of the brain and the rest of the nervous system in remarkable detail to explain how neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, and other biological processes produce all the experiences of everyday life, in every stage of life.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
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- Kalashnikov Dmitry
- 08-14-18
brilliant book
It's a brilliant book. The material is not new if you read Daniel Kanneman or Nassim Taleb for example. This book is very structural and put together many things which I learned from many books. I only doubt that it will make ignorant and stubborn people less ignorant. It's a good read for an intelligent person, but a source of rage for a believer. In that sense the book doesn't have a secret sauce to convince people lacking logic, as by definition they wouldn't be willing to put an effort in understanding.
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- Jerry R.
- 04-16-20
enjoyed
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is an easy listen easy to follow and the narrator did a great job
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- Marlo Tacla
- 07-02-19
Improve your thinking skills!
A very good book about cognitive skills. The author uses an easy to do understand (and listen) language and a lot of illustrative examples.
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- Hadi
- 02-27-16
Great Book!
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This is a review of an audio book I bought, and I immediately had buyer’s remorse because of a few negative reviews. I could not have been more wrong. I have always admired those who can think clearly, and I felt this book was a great step towards becoming a clear thinker. After listening to the book, I reflected that the number of logical fallacies and flaws in thinking we encounter every day is astonishing. We have many logical fallacies and cognitive weaknesses, from how memories are constructed and being horrible at probability to trusting “experts”—what is an expert? With the advances in bioengineering, people think of engineering the perfect athlete or the next Einstein, but if I want my daughter to become anything, I want her to be a thinker, a clear thinker.
The first problem with our minds is the flaws and fabrications of memory. When we think about memory, we think of a video recorder, which could not be further from the truth. What really happens is that every time we try to recall something, we re-construct that memory from scratch, contextualizing it with new information and adding to it our own biases. For example, if we come across a small car accident, and, later that day, we hear about causalities in a car accident, we might reconstruct that same car accident to include deaths.These interesting research findings show that the more confident we are of a memory, the less likely we’re able to accurately recall what really happened.
It is good for us and bad for us. Another cognitive weakness is pattern recognition, which can also be a strength. We have evolved to construct patterns that served us well: in the wild, if we observe that anyone that visits a certain area becomes lost, then we notice the correlation between going to that area and getting lost, which helps us to survive. The downside is that our brains can detect patterns that aren’t there. Another good example of this are dreams: when one dreams of a certain animal and, immediately after, encounters a bad experience, then one’s brain tends to link that dream to the bad experience. We notice this a lot with athletes: when a tennis player plays exceptionally well while wearing a certain kit, that player links that outcome to wearing that kit rather than more likely reasons, such as training very hard or exploiting the opponent’s weaknesses.
Other problems include confirmation bias—that is, we choose the conclusion with which we’re comfortable and then read books and listen to experts who confirm this pre-determined conclusion without examining other views objectively. Another fallacy is the familiarity bias, which is a big issue for experts. For example, a biologist is more likely to attribute a phenomenon to a biological reason while a sociologist is more likely to attribute the exact same thing to the society, something with which he or she is more familiar. Then, there is the hidden power of mass delusion. For example, when, in certain parts of Africa, more and more people testify about seeing a human with a donkey’s leg, an increasing number of people believe the mythology despite the lack of evidence. Then there is the issue of experts, even if they’re discussing something out of their expertise. An example of this is Lord Kelvin's assertion that the earth’s age is 100 million years, which he later reduced to 20 million years, which is still far from the accurate figure of 4,543 million years.
Good books are everywhere, but great books that make a lasting impact in the way we construct our reality are far between. Professor Steven Novella does a great job at explaining cognitive weaknesses and logical fallacies and how we can be aware of this and mitigate these shortfalls.
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- Max
- 03-19-17
if it makes you angry, you need to listen
I started listening to this lecture a few months ago. I didn't get far before experiencing an overwhelming feeling of annoyance. I got the impression that the author was trying to inflate himself by pointing out how ignorant most people are. I thought he was a little too confident in his statements.
I don't remember why I was determined to revisit the course, but in doing so, soon considered the possibility that the author might be telling me something I just didn't want to hear. Having finished the course, I am convinced that this was at least partially the case. I also think that it would be a great high school requirement.
I am currently helping a friend with a pretty serious legal matter. The statistics which indicate that very few of my peers ( aka Jurrors) are scientifically literate is terrifying. It seems that knowledge of the presented logical fallacies alone would likely get the case thrown out.
Is there even an inherent pledge/oath/statement/belief on the part of our judicial system that commits itself to being bound by science?
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- Savannah
- 04-10-19
Really great course
This was a very informative course, and was a surprisingly easy listen. I definitely recommend it.
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- Scott
- 04-24-15
Science Rules!
These set of lectures are fantastic! One of the best I have heard yet. Everyone should listen to these.
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- Roger
- 10-17-17
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The first chapters were very powerful. I liked the final chapters but I has many fewer "aha" moments while listening to them.
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- 10-09-18
An excellent experience
A perfect combination of accurate and clear explanations. Exceptionally enlightening, useful and enjoyable. Definately worth a second run through
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- JohnWayne07470
- 06-28-18
Outstanding.
I intend to listen to it again very soon just to be sure I didnt miss anything.
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