Book Club: Clear Thinking, By Shane Parrish (Part 1) - Why Your Ego Holds You Back

Disruptors and Curious minds, Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club! This month we’re reading Clear Thinking, by Farnam Street founder and The Knowledge Project host Shane Parrish. This is the book that you need if you doubt your decisions, or fear making mistakes, or just want to think clearer about your finances, investments, relationships, friendships and business. This week we explore: - How to hold space to think - The inertia default and how it's holding you back - The social default, and how that is holding you back - Clear thinking in ordinary moments And much more... ================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 0:58 Why Are We Reading Clear Thinking 2:17 Holding Space For Clear Thinking 3:48 How Are You Positioned To Think? 7:12 Parenting Clearly (The Ego Default) 10:40 Success Is Made In Ordinary Moments 14:53 The Inertia Default 16:04 The Social Default 22:21 Clear Thinking Is A Lever 24:00 Awareness Isn't Enough ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking? 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. - - - - - - - - - - - - About Thinking On Paper: Jeremy is a futurist, writer, and nexus thinker . He loves books. Mark is a creative writer, futurist thinker and trainee Nexus thinker. He loves books too. #bookclub #clearthinking #shaneparrish #booktube #bookreviews