About the Book: Think Better Than Your Brain: Build Better Models. Test Your
Beliefs. Solve Complex Problems
Your brain lies to you. Constantly.
It predicts before it perceives, fills knowledge gaps with guesses, presents
biases as instincts, romanticizes your past, compares you against everyone
around you and hands you conclusions built from limited experience?then
convinces you that this is 'thinking.
Most people run this faulty machine their entire lives without once reading the
manual. This book is the manual.
First, Shwetabh Gangwar opens up the machinery of the mind?predictive coding,
Bayesian reasoning, base rate neglect and the hidden biases?and shows you
precisely