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Brand-new Book Club - ‘Personality: A User’s Guide’. (1st November) Psychometrics, personality, type vs trait… what is it all about really? Join Georgi Yankov, Ph.D., and Nikita Mikhailov for this ABP book club, where they’ll discuss a variety of fascinating topics from how our personality changes and when robots will be starting to complete Personality assessments. This book has been reviewed by Robert Hogan, who described it “as the best introduction to Personality Psychology that I ever read” so it can’t be too shabby! To secure your place, click here. https://lnkd.in/eXTgQi-v

One of the most important books if you want to understand behavioral psychology. From building workflows to customer journeys on a website, once you get the content of this book, whoever consumes your product, will have a much better experience.

SMALL CHANGE > VOLUME 2 >> EDITION 32 LOOK WITH FRESH EYES Pop quiz: when is a chair not a chair? Before we all embarrass ourselves with pseudo-intellectual philosophising, here's a clue. 'Functional fixedness' is a term that psychologists use to describe how our brains create shortcuts by, in effect, filing items under the primary function that we ascribe to them. To return to our chair question, then, an answer might be: when it's a step to help us change a lightbulb. But functional fixedness means that we are blind to the chair as the answer to this need, and instead hunt around the house for a step. Now consider your circumstances. What functions have you, and those around you, ascribed to objects, teams, third parties or even people? Where might functional fixedness be getting in the way of a liberating breakthrough? SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: where might casting fresh eyes on the function of someone or something unlock opportunity?

The Science. When we listen to a story our brainwaves sync with the storyteller’s. We get on the same page. The Psychology. The nature of a story requires us to see situations from a character's/author's (someone else’s) POV. The Power. Stories shape, alter, and propel us. Takeaway: Stories Sell. #designstrategy #storytellingforbusiness #tellmeastory

Have you seen this chart before?   While I have seen the "skill-based, rule-based" terminologies many times, this is the first time I saw this chart—in a James Reason book.   This chart is a godsend.   Because I find the "skill-based, rule-based" terminologies confusing and unintuitive to use.   I don't know about you but I have always struggled to distinguish them, much less apply them.   What this chart does is it illustrate the relationships of the three mental mode along two axes—external situations and internal psychological modes.   It just makes things simple to understand, especially for a visual person like me.   If you find the three terms hard to remember, this chart might help.   P/S: It's just amazing how this 'old' stuff from three decades ago can be so elegantly presented and relevant, based on today's standard. 

Design for Cognitive Bias: The Audiobook It's finally here! You can now listen to the audiobook for Design for Cognitive Bias as read by David Dylan Thomas. This book breaks patterns of thought and behavior that we're not even aware we're locked into. Get it for your summer plane/train/car ride and emerge from vacation seeing differently, and interacting with people and your world differently. https://lnkd.in/giuYi52K

The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli is an amazing guide and provides a way to rational and linear thinkers in this world of uncertainty. I picked this book based on a review that the book covers the topic of cognitive biases. Congnitive bias is a type of error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them. It is often a result of the brain's attempt to simplify information processing and it affects the way we see and think about the world. The book through numerous examples helps you to find and distinguish your common mistake when you think and decide. This is a must read to kill overthinking.

Three books lay bare the weirdness of how our brains process the world around us. (From 2021) https://trib.al/mnfZYt2

Three books lay bare the weirdness of how our brains process the world around us. (From 2021) https://trib.al/DpIWQsO

"We must have our heads in the clouds and our feet on the ground, dealing with the reality while dreaming of a better future. We must be optimists and realists. And we must never quit trying to live the life we want." - NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman Read the summary by Jane Bushby - https://lnkd.in/eAy5YKSr Get the book - https://lnkd.in/e8j2APxk