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kleinbl00  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "No, you're not entitled to your opinion."

Oh hell yeah. Jay Heinrichs has it going on. I wholeheartedly recommend his book Thank You For Arguing.

Beyond that, I think anyone who ever has to convince someone else of something needs to have a pretty good handle on Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational and Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide.

Yes, that Jonah Lehrer. It can't all be fake.

If you find something else, let me know.





haldean  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just read the blog post you linked from Heinrichs, then immediately bought his book. And Jonah never lied, he just "borrowed" a bunch, so I'll take a look. Thanks so much!

kleinbl00  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, he made up a bunch of quotes. There's a really cool bit in "How we decide" about a Scud missile and a british missile cruiser that I've been unable to find reference to anywhere else. I REALLY want it to be true because it's cool but I'm not sure it is.