The Art of Thinking Clearly

{{Short description|2013 book by Rolf Dobelli}}

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| name = The Art of Thinking Clearly

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| author = Rolf Dobelli

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| country = United Kingdom, United States

| language = English

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| subject = Decision making

| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Sceptre (UK), Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US)

| release_date = 2013

| media_type = Print (Hardcover, ebook, Paperback, Bookapp)

| pages = 326 pages

| isbn = 978-1-4447-5954-9

| isbn_note = (UK), 978-0-06-221968-8 (US)

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The Art of Thinking Clearly is a 2013 book by the Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli which describes in short chapters 99 of the most common thinking errors – ranging from cognitive biases to envy and social distortions.

The book was written as weekly columns in leading newspapers in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and later in two German books. The book was in the top ten of Germany's Der Spiegel Bestseller list[http://www.buchreport.de/bestseller/hardcover/bestseller/4.htm Der Spiegel Bestseller List, 12 Jan 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731040023/http://www.buchreport.de/bestseller/hardcover/bestseller/4.htm |date=31 July 2008 }} for 80 consecutive weeks and has been translated into many languages. Outside Germany and Switzerland, the book hit the top ten bestseller lists in the U.K,The Times bestseller list hardback non-fiction, 21 April 2013 South Korea, India,[Crossword book retailer's bestseller list June 2013] Ireland,[http://www.writing.ie/news/irish-bestsellers-this-week/ Writing.IE Bestseller List, 14 June 2013] Singapore,The Straits Times bestseller list non-fiction, 28 April 2013 and Iran. Author Nassim Taleb has asserted that the book included sections plagiarised from Taleb's manuscript of Antifragile.{{cite web |url=http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm|title=Rolf Dobelli, Serial Plagiarist }}