{"product_id":"helpful-heuristics-handbook-9781925406474","title":"Helpful Heuristics Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Burgess | Dyan Burgess\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: D\u0026amp;m Fancy Pastry Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: D\u0026amp;m Fancy Pastry Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs set out in the foreword's in other publications in our 'Dream Enabler' series, for as long as we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan remember, the obsessive study of great thinkers has been our favourite pastime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne aspect of this has been our evolving approach to 'common placing' - that is, the constant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollection and ordering of the ideas of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommon placing has evolved, for us, from simply hoarding as many of our favourite books as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epossible, to cataloguing separately the key extracts, re-cataloguing extracts into disciplines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand themes and then to summarising the extracts into a centralised, personal 'bible' loosely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etitled 'brain food'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis release, the 'Helpful Heuristics Handbook' sets out some of the content that indirectly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einspired us to create other books in The Dream Enabler series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore broadly the heuristics featured here have also had an evolving and increasingly important\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eplace in our day to day thinking and decision making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs heuristics are designed to be 'rules of thumb' or short cuts to making reliably useful\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecisions quickly - without any focus on the underlying science; this handbook adopts the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esame approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn relation to any heuristics in this handbook that are not self-explanatory - or indeed that you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewould like more information or context about - please contact us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other alternative of course is to investigate yourself via that ubiquitous heuristic tool (not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactually otherwise mentioned in this book); namely leveraging Dr Google.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr as we were gently reminded recently: 'LMGTFY' is a thing; acknowledging the irony that you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emay need to Google this...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46390885089431,"sku":"9781925406474","price":3308.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781925406474.webp?v=1768804339","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/helpful-heuristics-handbook-9781925406474","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}