{"id":14652,"date":"2013-12-05T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2014-05-09T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T09:20:14","slug":"the-art-of-thinking-clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2013\/12\/the-art-of-thinking-clearly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Thinking Clearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14653\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/11-187x300.jpg?resize=187%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/>&#8216;The Art Of Thinking Clearly&#8217; by Rolf Dobelli is quite a thought-provoking treat, offering 99 reflections backed up by studies on how we tend to easily deceive ourselves, but more importantly, how to straighten out our perceptions. It&#8217;s easy to read yet substantial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is some room for improvement though&#8230; for &#8216;the art of thinking MORE clearly&#8217; would include clearer moral bearings and a sense of a higher goal for the trouble of thinking clearly? If not, the lessons learnt might be abused, thus with no higher purpose?<\/p>\n<p>Guess that&#8217;s not the focus of the book, but if an opening chapter on motivational morals and a closing chapter on the ultimate goal were added to frame the purpose and direction of thinking (and acting) clearly, it would be nice. (So clearly thinks the picky me?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Art Of Thinking Clearly&#8217; by Rolf Dobelli is quite a thought-provoking treat, offering 99 reflections backed up by studies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-perception","wpcat-176-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}