Irrationally yours

Three time New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely teams up with legendary The New Yorker cartoonist William Haefeli to present an expanded, illustrated collection of his immensely popularWall Street Journal advice column, Ask Ariely.Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized the way we think about ourselves, our minds, and our actions in his books Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty Ariely applies this scientific analysis of the human condition in his Ask Ariely Q A column in the Wall Street Journal, in which he responds to readers who write in with personal conundrums ranging from the serious to the curious What can you do to stay calm when you re playing the volatile stock market What s the best way to get someone to stop smoking How can you maximize the return on your investment at an all you can eat buffet Is it possible to put a price on the human soul Can you ever rationally justify spending thousands of dollars on a Rolex In Ask Ariely, a broad variety of economic, ethical, and emotional dilemmas are explored and addressed through text and images Using their trademark insight and wit, Ariely and Haefeli help us reflect on how we can reason our way through external and internal challenges Readers will laugh, learn, and most importantly gain a new perspective on how to deal with the inevitable problems that plague our daily life. Free Download Kindle ePUB Irrationally yours by Dan Ariely – kino-fada.fr I won this on goodreads.This is a reprint of his columns from the NYTimes rather than the new material I was hoping for I found a few chuckles and some interesting ideas, so I did enjoy the read, but I wanted , eitherdepth of content orhumor To me the middle line he walked was not fully satisfying.Normalde ki isel geli im tarz kitaplar okumamaya karard yd m ama bu kitap biraz daha farkl geldi i icin sat n ald m Yazar n okudu um ilk kitab Asl nda Wall Street Journal de yazd yaz lar n bir araya getirilmesi Bu nedenle tam kitap diyemesem de ok faydal bir eser K sa bir surede bir ok konuya be ...This is one of those books with a question and answer on just a page or two It s easily picked up and put down so that it is a good book for filling time If you look at it that way, this book is fine But I think that I expectedfrom the answers Having read this author s Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, I guess that I wantedinsight into the questions andthought from the answers Ariely answers questions that range from thoughtful to bizarre This is one of those books with a question and answer on just a page or two It s easily picked up and put down so that it is a good book for filling time If you look at it that way, this book is fine But I think that I expectedfrom the answers Having read this author s Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, I guess that I wantedinsight into the questions andthought from the answers Ariely answers ...What I liked most about this book ON VARIETY AS A MEMORY ENHANCEMENTON THE BENEFITS OF A CROWDED SPACE so called misattribution of emotions included ON HIRING A GOOD AND FREE ADVISORQ In terms of his moving versus not moving, I suspect your son is suffering from a combination of three decision biases The first is the endowment effect, which has to do with our tendency to use our current situation as a reference point, and view any other alternative as a negative change from where we are no What I liked most about this book ON VARIETY AS A MEMORY ENHANCEMENTON THE BENEFITS OF A CROWDED SPACE so called misattribution of emotions included ON HIRING A GOOD AND FREE ADVISORQ In terms of his moving versus not moving, I suspect your son is suffering from a combination of three decision biases The fi... 200 The target audience for this book is people who like Dan Ariely s work enough to read everything he publishes but not enough to keep up with his podcast or his column in the Washington Post Fortunately that exactly describes myself This particular book is a collection of entries from his newspaper column where people ask him questions that are often barely related to his specialty behavioral psycology , and he provides a witty answer from t...A little disappointed by this book that isn t alike the others written by Ariely Unlike his other books it doesn t feel like you have learned something special after finishing it Or maybe is it because I have already read all of his other stuff The book was ok, but far from being his best one.At least my extraocular muscles got some exercise thanks to the intense eye rolling this book imposed on me with every single one of its pages.One way to write a good book is to choose interesting contents Another way is to write interestingly about regular events Dan Ariely does exactly that through this piece The book is a collection of question and answers and Dan uses his socio economic perspective to disect events and provide answers to rather mundane occurrences The observance of decision making and rationalizing process is a world of its own and Dan does a great job of exposin...Disappointing I expectedtechnical responses and less snark Regardless, a quick and sometimes humorous read despite scratching only the surface.

Irrationally yours
  • English
  • 09 June 2018
  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • 0062379992
  • Dan Ariely
  • Irrationally yours