Kaushik BasuReason to Be Happy: Why logical thinking is the key to a better life
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Why do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes to our life expectancy, should we still go jogging? The ability to reason is one of our most undervalued skills. In everyday life, the key is to put yourself in the shoes of a clever competitor and think about how they might respond. Whether you are dealing with events on the scale of the Cuban missile crisis or letting go of anger, leading economist Professor Kaushik Basu shows how game theory - the logic of social situations - can help us achieve better outcomes and lasting happiness. Full of fascinating thought experiments and puzzles, Reason to Be Happy is a paean to the power of rationality. If you want to have a good life and even make the world a better place, you can start by thinking clearly.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
What do Michael Jackson, the evil queen from Snow White and Alice in Wonderland all have in common. Nope, only 2 of the 3 featured in Disney movies, and only one of them could do the Moonwalk. Sure, maybe all of them were a little weird or creepy in their own way, but that's not it either.
Give up? Each of them had a different way of dealing with a mirror. Michael chose to look at the man in his, the evil queen used hers to find 'the fairest of them all' and poor old Alice, well she kept falling through the dang things.
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