Book Club: Clear Thinking, By Shane Parrish (Part 2) - How You Can Be The Best Version Of Yourself

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club. This week we're building our own personal board of directors as outlined by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish in Clear Thinking. We're going to take the great minds of business, music, writing and thinking and use them to hold ourselves accountable.

TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 1:06 Jeremy On Expecting More Of Yourself 5:06 Automatic Rules To Protect Creativity 8:14 Kind V Nice 11:41 Changing Your Mind 15:09 My Board Of Thinking Directors 17:30 Thinking Like Bob Marley 21:05 Stoicism ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing.