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  • Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

    The Lemon Juice Bank Robber and How to Catch Overconfidence Before It Destroys Your Career, Relationships, and Savings

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    Being wrong about something feels, from the inside, exactly the same as being right. That equivalence is why abank robber covers his face with lemon juice (believing it makes him invisible to cameras), why day traderswith three months of experience outperform the market until month four (when they start losing money fasterthan beginners), and why the most confident job candidate in your interview ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Planted Price

    How the First Number You See Controls What You'll Pay-and the Three-Second Check That Stops It

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    In *The Planted Price*, author Simon Blackwood reveals how the first number you encounter-a listingprice, an opening bid, a menu anchor-hijacks every judgment that follows, even when you know to ignore it.Professional appraisers valued the same house thousands of dollars apart based solely on a fabricated numberthey were told to disregard; emergency-room physicians locked onto triage notes and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Expert Trap

    Why Success Makes You Blind to Risk-and How to Spot the Warning Signs Before You Lose Everything

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    In The Expert Trap, author Simon Blackwood explores the measurable gap between how certain expertssound and how often they turn out to be right. Rather than a critique of arrogance or ego, this book uncovers astatistical failure that sits underneath collapsed hedge funds, wrongful medical diagnoses, failed forecasts, andstartup burn-rate fantasies-moments where the people involved were not ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Can't Let Go

    Why We Stay in Failing Projects, Relationships, and Businesses-and How to Walk Away Before You Lose Everything

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    In *Can't Let Go*, author Simon Blackwood explores the sunk cost fallacy-the hidden mechanism that keepsus funding failing ventures long after every rational signal says stop. Rather than offering generic advice about"cutting your losses," this book uncovers why even experienced decision-makers-engineers, executives,investors, military strategists-continue pouring resources into projects, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • I Knew It All Along

    Stop Your Brain from Rewriting the Past and Start Trusting Your Real-Time Choices

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    The certainty you feel about what you should have seen is not proof you missed something obvious - it isproof your memory has already rewritten the decision to match the ending you now know. Part of The BiasFiles, Simon Blackwood's insightful book explores the mechanism that makes past outcomes feel inevitable,erasing the uncertainty that shaped every choice at the time it was made.When an outcome ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Buying the Top

    How to Spot the Peak Before You Buy In-and Protect Your Money, Career, and Judgment

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    The most recent information you have is not the most reliable-it is simply the easiest to remember, and thatease disguises itself as relevance until the decision you made on incomplete evidence quietly fails. Part of TheBias Files, Simon Blackwood's insightful book explores the mechanism behind recency bias and why whathappened last becomes your default forecast for what happens next.When you make ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Words Are Weapons

    How Tiny Phrase Changes Hijack Your Money, Health, and Happiness-and How to Take Back Control

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    The choice you think you're making based on the facts is often being made by the sentence that presented them,and most people never notice the substitution. Part of The Bias Files, Simon Blackwood's insightful bookexplores how identical information, described in two equally accurate ways, produces two differentdecisions-and why the wording, not the underlying reality, is frequently in control.When ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Why It's Never Your Fault

    Own Your Failures, Learn from Mistakes, and Build Real Confidence

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    Success feels personal. Failure feels circumstantial. The gap between those two explanations isn't evidence-it'sarchitecture, and most of what you defend or avoid next depends on whether you recognize the pattern or let itrun your assessments invisibly. Part of The Bias Files, Simon Blackwood's insightful book explores theself-serving bias, the psychological mechanism that drives you to credit ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Cutting Losses

    Why You Hold Losing Stocks, Reject Fair Offers, and How to Walk Away Winning

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    The mistake is not holding the losing stock - the mistake is holding it longer than you would have held anidentical stock at the identical price, purchased yesterday, and the gap between those two holding periods iswhat you are paying to avoid admitting the loss has already occurred. Part of The Bias Files, SimonBlackwood's insightful book explores why otherwise careful people refuse to walk away ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • When Everyone Agrees You're Wrong

    How to Challenge the Room, Save the Decision, and Keep Your Seat at the Table

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    The room that has stopped being willing to hear the case against itself looks exactly like a room that has donethe work, and most of what goes wrong next depends on whether anyone at the table can tell the difference. Partof The Bias Files, Simon Blackwood's book examines how private doubt becomes public silence, and what thatsilence costs in decisions that can't be unwound.When Everyone Agrees, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Twice as Long

    Why Deadlines, Budgets, and Timelines Always Fail-And the One Tool to Fix Them

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    Your last "six-month project" probably took eighteen months, and the pattern isn't bad luck-it's the planningfallacy, a systematic bias where competent people underestimate their own timelines even when they know theerror by name. Part of The Bias Files, Simon Blackwood's insightful book explores why informed professionalsconsistently miss deadlines, blow budgets, and underestimate failure ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • When Everyone's Buying, Sell

    How to Spot Crowd Traps, Protect Your Money, and Win When Others Panic

    by Simon Blackwood ...
    The crowd's size is not evidence of the crowd's rightness, but most people discover that distinction only afterthey've already followed. Part of The Bias Files, Simon Blackwood's book dissects the specific psychologicalmechanisms that turn other people's visible behavior into what feels like information, and why that feeling isalmost always misleading.When you see a crowd forming-around a stock, a ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD