Thursday, April 14, 2011

Book Reading #49 - Why We Make Mistakes

Ch 10
Summary:
This talked about optimism and depression and how it affected the view of reality. This causes people to overestimate or overlook things. This leads to overconfidence. Feedback of these views is also really important, The harder the task, the more confident people get because of the amount of information they have because of the complexity.

Ch 11
Summary:
This chapter discusses how professionals think they are good or bad at things. Expertise in something comes with practice, early start, and knowledge database in the brain. People don't like to do this though. No one ever reads the manuals to put things together. They also do it the first way the learned something. Thinking outside the box is key although we don't like to do so.



Discussion:
I enjoyed reading about the way people learn things and how they actually do things. I have caught myself being stubborn and doing it the first way I learned without accepting other methods until i failed.

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