Thinking 101, Wookyoung Ahn
Thinking 101, Wookyoung Ahn
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Thinking 101
How to Reason Better to Live Better

Author: Woo-kyoung Ahn

Narrator: Lessa Lamb

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

"Every day of our lives, we make judgments—and we don’t always do a very good job of it. Thinking 101 is an invaluable resource to anyone who wants to think better. In remarkably clear language, and with engaging and often funny examples, Woo-kyoung Ahn uses cutting-edge research to explain the mistakes we often make—and how to avoid them.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies

"Thinking 101 is a must-read—a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think. Building from her popular Yale course, Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn shows how a better understanding of how our minds work can help us become smarter and wiser—and even kinder."—Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto, Brooks and Suzanne Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University, and the author of The Sweet Spot

"With an engaging and fresh narration, Lessa presents each fascinating chapter in a fun and easy way that helps listeners understand how to think more clearly and constructively."- AudioFile

Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale called “Thinking” to help students examine the biases that cause so many problems in their daily lives. It quickly became one of the university’s most popular courses. Now, for the first time, Ahn presents key insights from her years of teaching and research in a book for everyone.

She shows how “thinking problems” stand behind a wide range of challenges, from common, self-inflicted daily aggravations to our most pressing societal issues and inequities. Throughout, Ahn draws on decades of research from other cognitive psychologists, as well as from her own groundbreaking studies. And she presents it all in a compellingly accessible style that uses fun examples from pop culture, anecdotes from her own life, and illuminating stories from history and the headlines.

Thinking 101 is an audiobook that goes far beyond other resources on thinking, showing how we can improve not just our own daily lives through better awareness of our biases but also the lives of everyone around us. It is, quite simply, required listening for everyone who wants to think—and live—better.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

About Woo-kyoung Ahn

WOO-KYOUNG AHN is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. After receiving her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was assistant professor at Yale University and associate professor at Vanderbilt University. In 2022, she received Yale's Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excellence in the social sciences. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Thinking 101 is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank

Takeaways from reading the book: Chapter 1: The allure of fluency. - Page 7: The "not me" bias is the belief that while others may have certain cognitive biases, we ourselves are immune. - Page 10: Watching Michael Jackson do the moonwalk 20 times without practicing does not make you a better moonwalke......more

Goodreads review by Carin

I actually hadn’t been planning on reading this book, even though the author made a super fun and interesting presentation to us, but it came up in conversation with my husband, who started reading it that night, and I figured I would too. After all, it truly does impact everyday life and just regul......more

Goodreads review by Stetson

Thinking 101 is another unneeded addition to the genre of books on cognitive biases. This genre reached maturity with the publication of Thinking Fast and Slow in 2011. More thank a decade later, it is time for a moratorium. It is to be expected that pop psych books couched in part as self-help will......more

This book is excellent and is my new go-to recommendation for this subject. It's not that I learned much from it; I actually maybe learned nothing? Or very little. But I treat books like these like mental pushups, keeping myself sharp on the various biases and things humans do to trick themselves in......more

Goodreads review by Eric

TL;DR Dr. Woo-Kyoung Ahn’s Thinking 101 teaches us how we make mistakes in our thought process through clear definitions and many pertinent, interesting examples. By putting into place her strategies for combating biases, maybe we can make ourselves a little better and find a little more grace an......more