The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli - Clear Thinking Guide - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781473667525. Publisher: Sceptre. Overview. The Art of the Good Life is Rolf Dobelli's follow-up to his international bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly, distilling philosophy, psychology and economics into fifty-two short, standalone chapters. Each one presents a single mental model designed to help readers make clearer decisions about money, career, relationships and time. Written in a direct, conversational style, it is built for busy adults who want practical wisdom they can apply immediately rather than a dense theoretical treatise. This new paperback edition is ideal for professionals, students of decision-making, and anyone drawn to accessible self-help writing grounded in real intellectual rigour.. About the Book. Rolf Dobelli spent years collecting the mental models that most reliably improve judgement, then distilled them into this compact volume. Rather than one continuous argument, the book is structured as fifty-two independent essays, each just a few pages long, so readers can dip in wherever suits them, at a desk, on a commute, or before bed. Topics range from why more possessions rarely bring more happiness, to how to avoid the trap of chasing other people's definitions of success, to techniques for making better business and financial decisions under uncertainty. Dobelli draws on behavioural economics, Stoic philosophy and his own experience as an entrepreneur to explain why our intuitive judgements so of...