Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves. Ted Cadsby,...
We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from the ones that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking has not evolved to keep pace. We need to catch up. To make smarter decisions -- as governments, organizations, families and individuals -- we need more sophisticated mental strategies for interpreting and responding to today's complexity. Best-selling author and business leader Ted Cadsby explores the insights...
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Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, we overreact. Ted Cadsby, Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World // We are facing greater ecological instability, deeper social complexity and a growing need for individual meaning that would be foreign to all but our most recent ancestors. We cannot reach the destinations we choose for ourselves if we do not alter our navigation systems to accommodate the greater complexity in our lives Ted Cadsby, Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World // Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves. Ted Cadsby, Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World //
The author has an incredible ability to open up new ideas for a reader by introducing concepts that are really well researched and explained in a way that anyone could understand and appreciate. This book has so many new insights, as other reviewers have mentioned, that its hard to do justice to the content of the book, or predict which... What an amazing book! This is the one I am recommending to all my friends this year. The more confident we are in our thinking, the more likely we are to be doing it wrong. Our brains do not function optimally in the modern world: they have problems with ambiguity, probability, filtering information, and looking for missing data. We... Anyone interested in how we think and how we can think better.
