Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser [Paperback]

Were drowning in information, but its as difficult as ever to make smart, fact-based decisions. As Guy P. Harrison shows, good thinking doesnt just happenand he has crafted an engaging guide to the fine art of being wise.?William Poundstone, author of Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost EverybodyFor all our vaunted intelligence, we human beings believe some really bizarre things.?Guy P. Harrison takes us on a judicious, wide-ranging, and entertaining tour of the many dimensions of human mental weirdness, pointing out where we need to be particularly on guard against our poor decision-making processes.?Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus, American Museum of Natural HistoryHarrison explains why so many smart, well-educated people are capable of making terrible decisions for themselves and their children. Its a?how-to book on how to get it right.?Paul A. Offit, MD, author of Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine?In Good Thinking, Guy P. Harrison explores the human brain from the perspectives of evolution, anatomy, function, and psychology to show why people are so often deluded by irrational perceptions and beliefs. He successfully promotes an approach to critical thinking that, as he puts it, can turn bad thinking to good. I learned much from this informed, readable, and entertaining book.?Daniel J. Fairbanks, dean of the College of Science and Health, Utah Valley University, and author of Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race?Science has taught us a lot about how we thinkwhat we do well, how we go astray, and how we can do better. In Good Thinking,?an engagingly written book, Guy P. Harrison lets us in on relevant knowledge from the social, behavioral, and biological sciences; and he shows us how to put that knowledge to work.?Jefferson M. Fish, professor emeritus of psychology, St. Johns University, New York CityNature gave us powerful brains but didnt provil£Í