Good Thinking, and Bad: Using the science of cognition to make better decisions

“Good Thinking, and Bad” is a mental tool box to enable and empower the reader’s thinking. With a little help, everyone can be smarter and make better decisions. The positive message that underpins the book is that recent meta-cognition discoveries are not just negative ‘thinking fallacies’. Instead they are thinking paradigms which have evolved over millennia. They have at least as many valuable advantages as they do subtle disadvantages. The book features new thinking in the science of meta-cognition (thinking about thinking) which provide insights to enable good thinking. It also teaches us how to spot, and to stop, bad thinking. The book is built around a practical decision-making model which the author has developed. This is based on extensive research and his experience as a senior management consultant. The structure of the book exploits proven education and training techniques to make these interesting ideas digestible and easy to retain. This book is FUN: An entertaining writing style with a treasure trove of anecdotes and fascinating facts keeps the reader engaged. This book is SMART: It examines the meta-cognition research breakthroughs over the last 30 years. In a world where the nerds have the advantage, all the evidence is that good thinking leads to outsize rewards and success. This book is PRACTICAL: Meta-cognition explains how people think in different contexts, but “Good thinking, and Bad” goes a step further by offering practical solutions and easy-to-use tools to deploy these insights every day.