Rolf Dobelli

Rolf Dobelli

Author and entrepreneur

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and entrepreneur who co founded getAbstract, the world's largest publisher of compressed knowledge, and founded Zurich.Minds, a community of distinguished thinkers. His bestselling book The Art of Thinking Clearly catalogues 99 common cognitive biases and reasoning errors that distort everyday decision making.

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Books by Rolf Dobelli

The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

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Dobelli catalogs cognitive errors, survivorship bias, sunk cost fallacy, and dozens more, that distort everyday reasoning. Awareness of these traps is a critical defense against poor decisions.

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Most Recommended by Rolf

The books Rolf Dobelli references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.

psychology
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Taleb argues that rare, unpredictable events drive history far more than gradual trends. Our models systematically underestimate extreme outcomes, with devastating consequences.

philosophypsychology

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