Super Thinking

The Big Book of Mental Models

Hardcover, 352 pages

Published June 18, 2019 by Portfolio.

ISBN:
978-0-525-53358-0
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4 stars (5 reviews)

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Review of 'Super Thinking' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

As the authors note in the foreword - they tried writing a book they wish they had when they started their careers. I believe they succeeded. I also wish I read this book much earlier in my life.

I've read and reviewed other books that all feel related to topics covered here, namely Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman or Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Both of these get referenced several times in specific examples.

If this book was a professional person it would be a generalist. It covers cognitive biases, fallacies and buzzwords or phrases that you might have heard but perhaps don't understand the meaning of. And it strikes a decent balance between covering a lot of things and explaining each of them well. This is by no means a specialist literature for learning about all the ways our brains are broken. …

Review of 'Super Thinking' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I couldn't make it.
It is that bad.

He quotes COVEY & his works on non-sense matrices of success.
DAMN I WAS FOOLED.

I guess none of it was actually written by Weinberg but McCann - it has zero value.
Unless you are a very stupid person with a one-time monthly access to the internet.

I can't give it a zero.
But that's fucking offensive to sell it and call it a book.
I remember getting free printed books published by a local oligarch for free...and those ghost-written works had a much better value for the 'price' of wasted time.
I would punch him in the face for a such a waste, trees didn't deserve it

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