Full name: Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

Author: William Poundstone Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Science, Business, Economics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316228060 9780316228053 0316228060 0316228052

A practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. Rock Breaks Scissors is mind-reading for real life. Will the next tennis serve go right or left? Will the market go up or down? Most people are poor at that kind of predicting. We are hard-wired to make bum bets on "trends" and "winning streaks" that are illusions. Yet ultimately we're all in the business of anticipating the actions of others. Poundstone reveals how to overcome the errors and improve the accuracy of your own outguessing. Rock Breaks Scissors is a hands-on guide to turning life's odds in your favor. Similar books: You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell The Mask of Sanity by Hervey M. Cleckley The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam The Secret Lives of Introverts by Jenn Granneman The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal Snoop by Sam Gosling Savage Spawn by Jonathan Kellerman Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan Mindwise by Nicholas Epley Pranklopedia by Julie Winterbottom Cracked by James Davies Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling Rising Strong by Brene Brown Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making by Scott Plous The Logic of Life by Tim Harford Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone Spent by Geoffrey Miller