Life is full of decisions. “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Knowledge” outlines methods of making choices rationally using scientific methods. Perlmutter says it's easy to fall ...

Clear thinking rarely feels urgent. You go through your day making decisions, forming opinions, and responding to arguments without pausing to examine how you arrived there. Most of the time, that ...

WHEN I WAS a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, doing research in cognitive psychology, our lab group went out every now and then for nachos and beers. It was a great ...

Conspiracy theories. Inability to distinguish facts from falsehoods. Widespread confusion about who and what to believe. These are some of the hallmarks of the current crisis in critical ...

For the University of Delaware’s Wendy Smith, who is the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, making a tough business decision doesn’t always ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --Much of my 2025 will be devoted to co-authoring a book with my great English friend, David Richards. The title is The Great Paradox: Strategic Thinking in an Unstrategic World. Richards ...

I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” or possibly “The Waves.” ...

Thinking changes slowly. These books shape how you see decisions, behaviour, and uncertainty, leaving behind insights that ...

Most problems come from the same patterns. Books that focus on stress, decisions, time, and clarity to help life feel more ...