The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003OXTODY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 134 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among the topics Dan explores are: * What we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy; * How we learn to love the ones we are with; * Why online dating doesn't work, and how we can improve on it; * Why learning more about people make us like them less; * Why large bonuses can make CEOs less productive; * How to really motivate people at work; * Why bad directions can help us; * How we fall in love with our ideas; * How we are motivated by revenge; and * What motivates us to cheat. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling a
All rights reserved. 12). From Publishers Weekly Arielly examines the powerful sway that irrational motivations and urges have on our personal and professional lives. (June) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. However, his own personality is so overpowering that it becomes difficult to remember that the conclusions are the author's--not the reader's. His discussion mixes both his personal experiences and a variety of research, including many experiments performed by him and colleagues. The difficulty to discern the autho
Lessons on frailty of intuition Of the three books by this author that I have read (the other two are on irrationality being predictable and on dishonesty), this is by far the most interesting, notwithstanding that its presentation is rather less organised in parts.The first half of the book covers motivation and incentives at work. Description of experiments is vivid, often presented from the perspective of the subjects in the experiments (ie rats and hum. Barbara S. Reeves said A Happy Person Will Still Be Happy a Year Later Even With Negative Curcumstances!. I've often wondered why I can listen to a song only a certain number of times before I'm sick of it. If I like the song the first time I hear it, that only means that I'll get tired of it sooner. But the ones I begin to like around the sixth or seventh listen, the ones that grow on me, those are the best ones. But my enjoyment if them still eventually wears thin and I have to find some new music. Now I know what that's calle. Jill Clardy said We All Like to Think That we Are Rational, But Think Again. Ariely writes about behavioral economics: "We don't assume that people are perfectly sensible, calculating machines. Instead, we observe how people actually behave, and quite often our observations lead us to the conclusion that human beings are irrational."No one ever admits to being irrational, yet we frequently witness irrational behavior in others. After reading the book, I'll have to begrudgingly admit that I'm not perf