15 must-read nonfiction books like Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science beh…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

By: Dan Ariely

3.93

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality ret… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips."

-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

"[..] we human beings are ready and willing to steal something that does not explicitly reference monetary value - that is, something that lacks the face of a dead president."

-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

"By the time [people] finish entering all the data onto the form, it is too late. The cheating is done and over with, and no one will say, 'Oh, I need to sign this thing, let me go back and give hones…"

-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

"Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing stu…"

-Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

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2. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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3. Dear Life: Stories

By: Alice Munro

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more

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4. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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5. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

By: Steven Pinker

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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6. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an i… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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7. A History of Western Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science beh… read more

Similar categories in Gerd Gigerenzer's Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious book and Gerd Gigerenzer's Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help

10. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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11. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

By: Maria Konnikova

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author of Mastermind, a compelling investigation into the minds,… read more

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12. Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

By: Eric Klinenberg

4.67

Format: 40 pages,

A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom - the sharp … read more

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13. Nature Girl

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

In his latest New York Times bestseller, Hiaasen introduces impassioned, possibly bipolar, self-pro… read more

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14. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

By: Richard Carlson

3.86

Format: 138 pages,

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff is a book that shows you how to keep from l… read more

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15. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"The “persecution"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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16. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

By: Ben Horowitz

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"Without trust, communication breaks. Here’s why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust."

-Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

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17. Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

By: Joe Coulombe

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love—and a work environment that your emplo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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18. The White Darkness

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrill… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Passion for something can easily tip into obsession, which is a dangerous thing, especially when those affected are they very people who so loyally stand and wait. -Henry Worsley"

-David Grann, The White Darkness

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19. Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

By: John Kay

3.90

Format: 544 pages, ebook

Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roul… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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20. The Science of Storytelling

By: Will Storr

4.06

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"The gift of story is wisdom"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

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21. 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself

By: Jerome S. Blackman

4.06

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

9 best-selling philosophy books like Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

Transform Your Habits

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

Dan Ariely

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.33

Transform Your Habits

A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

3.82

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Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller , None

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

Robin Norwood

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

4.05

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