10/10 Books To Make You Smart Again

10 out of 10 books to make you smart again, but they get progressively more niche part 2. The art of thinking clearly by Rolf Dobelli. Stop reading Atomic Habits and start reading this. It's 99 short chapters, covering every cognitive bias you're falling for right now. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke. I think about this book almost every day since I've read it. Annie is a professional poker player and she teaches you to make life decisions like your betting. Because every make is really on an uncertain future, kind of like poker. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. This book popularized the 10,000-hour rule. It's been debunked, but the rest of the book still holds. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. Nate is a stats wiz and also a former poker player. He explains why most predictions fail and how we can separate true meaningful information from a sea of noisy, misleading data. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. This book covers why you're not randomly irrational, but in exact repeatable patterns. And advertisers have actually exploited this for decades. Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. Some things break under stress, some survive, a few actually get stronger from it. This book is Taleb's case for building your life to get stronger from adversity, not weaker. Salt by Mark Kurlansky. Wars have been fought and empires funded over this condiment. You'll never look at salt the same again. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. It's basically just a bunch of reviewing random pieces of human existence, like Diet Dr. Pepper, Halley's Comet, the QWERTY keyboard, on a five-star scale and somehow it adds up to being one of the best books on what it means to be alive right now. Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger. Warren Buffett's business partner's collected speeches on mental models, decision-making, and kind of human misjudgment. It has a massive cult following in finance circles, but it's relatively unknown outside those circles. Give these books a try, you think?