A review of how we should think and biases that interfere with our ability to think clearly.

1. Think!
A guide to a more thoughtful life.

2. Let’s make it better!

4. The more you read, the more things you
know, the more that you learn, the more
places you will go! - Dr. Seuss

6. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and
think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think.
So I do more reading and thinking and make less impulse decisions
than most people in business. Warren Buffett

7.  Avoiding stupid
 How to think
 Why we make errors in
thinking – cognitive bias

8. Avoid stupid.

9. Think better.

10.  Fast thinking - Intuition
o Slow down the situation
o Practice actions

11.  Slow thinking -
o Questions
o Simplify
o Proof

12.  Slow thinking -
o Big Ideas
o Backwards Thinking
o Multiple disciplines

14. Find the flaws.

15.  Cognitive biases:
o Association bias
o Reward and punishment
o Self Interest & Incentives
o Self Serve Bias

16.  Cognitive biases:
o Man with a hammer
o Reason respecting
o Law of reciprocity

17. Top 3
My recommendations for your best thinking:
Next steps

18. Natalie’s top 3:
o Avoid the dumb mistakes
o Simplify, simplify, simplify
o Check your biases

19. Thanks!
@NiagaraNat
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Celebrate Niagara
Natalie Lowe

20. Suggested reading
 Influence, by Robert Cialdini
 Good to great, by Jim Collins
 Blink & Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
 Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness & Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb
 Freakonomics, by Dubner and Levitt
 Losing my Virginity, by Richard Branson
 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
 The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
 Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
 Mistakes Were Made, by Tavris and Aronson
 Emergency, by Neil Strauss
 Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
 Talent is Overrated, Geoffrey Colvin
 Zero to One, by Masters and Thiel
 The Organized Mind, by Daniel Levitin
 How the Scots Invented the Modern World, by Arthur Herman
 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron Chernow
 No Two Alike, by Judith Harris
 Mans Search For Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
 The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins
 Letters From A Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by George Lorimer
 Seeking Wisdom: from Darwin to Munger, by Peter Bevelin
 Capital, by Thomas Piketty
 Striking Thoughts, by Bruce Lee
 Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, by Yuval Harari

21. Suggested blogs, films and podcasts
Blogs
Farnham Street Blog
Barking up the Wrong Tree
Ted.com
Films/TV
 Searching for Sugarman
 Man on a Wire
 Cosmos
 Fantastic Mr. Feynman
 Planet Earth
 Forks over Knives
 Ai Wei Wei (Critic of Chinese government)
Podcasts
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
The Tim Ferris Show
The School of Greatness
Start up Canada
Intelligence Squared – US debates
Planet Money
Grammar Girl
Common sense & Hardcore History – Dan Carlin