Helpful Heuristics Handbook

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As set out in the foreword's in other publications in our 'Dream Enabler' series, for as long as wecan remember, the obsessive study of great thinkers has been our favourite pastime.One aspect of this has been our evolving approach to 'common placing' - that is, the constantcollection and ordering of the ideas of others.Common placing has evolved, for us, from simply hoarding as many of our favourite books aspossible, to cataloguing separately the key extracts, re-cataloguing extracts into disciplinesand themes and then to summarising the extracts into a centralised, personal 'bible' looselytitled 'brain food'.This release, the 'Helpful Heuristics Handbook' sets out some of the content that indirectlyinspired us to create other books in The Dream Enabler series.More broadly the heuristics featured here have also had an evolving and increasingly importantplace in our day to day thinking and decision making.As heuristics are designed to be 'rules of thumb' or short cuts to making reliably usefuldecisions quickly - without any focus on the underlying science; this handbook adopts thesame approach.In relation to any heuristics in this handbook that are not self-explanatory - or indeed that youwould like more information or context about - please contact us.The other alternative of course is to investigate yourself via that ubiquitous heuristic tool (notactually otherwise mentioned in this book); namely leveraging Dr Google.Or as we were gently reminded recently: 'LMGTFY' is a thing; acknowledging the irony that youmay need to Google this...

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Pages: 254, Hardcover, D&m Fancy Pastry Pty Ltd