BOOK SUMMARY

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If You Only Read One Chapter, This is It!

The Main Sections

The book is grouped into 3 main sections – understanding, identifying, and avoiding Mind-bugs, and it has a section of appendices.

• Section 1: Understanding Mind-bugs focuses on learning how our internal processes of thoughts, feelings, desires, and decisions work and interact. We cannot avoid mind-bugs unless we recognize what is happening inside ourselves. With this recognition the section then addresses how to improve decisions within corporations and other organizations.
• Section 2: Identifying Mind-Bugs teaches us to name the mind-bugs so that we learn what to look for. And, we learn to do this without becoming defensive. It provides convenient and easy-to-understand reference guides that can be used immediately without reading the entire book.
• Section 3: Avoiding Mind-bugs teaches us to how to look for mind-bugs and provides tools and practices for avoiding them. When we do this, we grow in the way we think. And, we reduce the risk of faulty decisions.
• Appendices: Has an appendix that includes a deeper dive into the underlying research and important charts and tools from throughout the book in one section. Try browsing them; you will likely continue to have “Aha! moments.”

Table of Contents

Summary: If You Only Read One Chapter, This is It
Using the Book
0: Corporations and Mind Bugs
Section 1: Understanding Mind-Bugs
1: Bugs in Our Thinking
2: How We Take Action: The Process
3: No Help from Our Brain: Brain Signals
4: The Four Mind Functions
5: The Two Ways
6: Taking Command
7: What to Remember – Section 1
Section 2: Identifying Mind-Bugs
8: Meet the Mind-Bugs
9: Mind-Bug Reference Guide
10: The Sufficiency Dimension Mind-Bugs
11: The Accuracy Dimension Mind-Bugs
12: The Beliefs Dimension Mind-Bugs
13: The Social Dimension Mind-Bugs
14: What to Remember – Section 2
Section 3: Avoiding Mind-Bugs
15: Defining the Problem
16: The Solution—A Path to Better Decisions
17: Step One: Improving My Own Thinking
18: From Step 1 to Step 2: The Two Questions about the Two Ways
19: Step 2: Improving Interaction in Groups
20: Step 2 Continued: The Two Ways of Interacting with Others
21: Step 3: Improving Learning and Feedback
22: Step 4: Decisions, The 30 Second Scan
23: Step 4 Continued: The Mind-Bug Debugging Process
24: Step 5: Correction
25: Step 6: Using the Path to Better Decisions
26: What Prevents the First Step?
27: The Age of Quality Thinking

Endnotes

Acknowledgements and Gratitude

Appendices
A: The Steps, Tools, and Practices
B: How the Book Wrote Itself
C: The Research —Mind-Bugs Fundamental Themes
D: References
Index

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