The Art of the Good Life

Rolf Dobelli has a gift for identifying the best ideas in the world and then putting them together in ways that make the whole even more valuable than the sum of the parts. He's done it for the art of thinking. Now he does it for the art of living -- Jonathan Haidt, author of the New York Times bestseller THE RIGHTEOUS MIND
Rolf Dobelli is brilliant at converting evidence from scientific research into practical steps that improve personal outcomes -- Robert Cialdini, author of the international bestseller INFLUENCE
Rolf Dobelli gives us as valuable advice about how to live as he did about how to think -- James R. Flynn, discoverer of the Flynn Effect
Rolf Dobelli has done it again! Not only does he open our eyes, now he wakes us up. Because of his rigorous scientific analysis combined with his shattering philosophical approach he is never satisfied with the superficial. So, grab Rolf's book and don't let it go! -- Tenley E. Albright, Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives and Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School.
Rolf Dobelli is a virtuosic synthesizer of ideas. With wit, grace, and precision he melds science and art in his joyful pursuit of wisdom -- Joshua Greene, professor of psychology, Harvard University, and author of MORAL TRIBES
Rolf Dobelli possesses one of Europe's finest minds -- Matt Ridley, author of THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING
Rolf Dobelli's works are informative, insightful, and accessible. In an age of celebrity ignoramuses, he is a true public intellectual -- Lou Marinoff, Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York
Rolf Dobelli offers plenty of food for thought, and writes clearly - stimulating, amusing, brilliant -- Dr Christoph Franz, former CEO of Lufthansa, Chairman of Roche
Rolf Dobelli is endowed with both imagination and realism, a combination hard to find since the 16th-century Renaissance -- Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of BLACK SWAN

PRAISE FOR THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY

Do you have to read this book? Definitely. It's extremely entertaining and offers a fundamentally sound introduction to the nature of human thought

-- Professor Dr (h.c.) Roland Berger, Founder and Honorary Chairman of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

Brimming with insights! Anybody who's sick of constantly stumbling into mental traps has got to read this book

-- Professor Iris Bohnet, Harvard

This book will change the way you think

-- Dan Goldstein, London Business School

Three pages in, and you've already learned something else

-- Franz Himpsel, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Rolf Dobelli writes clearly, intelligently and convincingly * Gerhard Schroder *