Author
Rolf Dobelli
The Swiss novelist and entrepreneur who catalogued ninety-nine thinking errors in three pages each.
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The story and the impact
Rolf Dobelli studied philosophy and business in St. Gallen, worked as an executive at Swissair and co-founded getAbstract, a service that summarises business books. He published several novels before the book that made him known internationally.
The Art of Thinking Clearly began as a private list of the errors he kept catching in himself and in the executives around him, drawn from Kahneman, Tversky, Nassim Taleb and the wider research on judgement. Published in German in 2011 and English in 2013, it became a global bestseller, followed by The Art of the Good Life and Stop Reading the News.
The signature
Dobelli writes in three-page chapters: one error, one story, one defence, and no theory. His stance is stoic; you cannot stop the errors, but you can name them and stay out of the situations where they cost most.