Great book, opened my mind to how closed the human mind is. it was the last of the four books my friend Mordy Ovits got me as a housewarming gift 5 years ago. I've now asked him to make 4 recommendations on a new topic.

I liked the book but I thought it was a bit too shallow and repetitive. You could distill the main arguments down to 25 pages and still include everything that's important. But at least it was a fairly entertaining book.

Author Jonah Lehrer has chosen to discuss How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Decision-Making, saying that:



“...This book really invented the genre of science non-fiction. If you want to summarise it, a large part of the book is about positive information bias – the fact that we like to believe that we’re right and so we ignore all sorts of evidence that suggests we might be wrong. We think we’re so objective, but there’s actually nothing objective about the human mind. We have these working beliefs and we seek evidence to confirm beliefs: that, unfortunately, is the best summary of how we seek out evidence. …”



The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jonah-lehrer-on-decision-making ( )