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Clear Thinking Under Pressure: Logic, Systems, Strategy, and Game Theory for Better Decisions
A Practical Field Guide to Detecting Manipulation, Testing Assumptions, and Navigating Complex ChoicesBy Imad Muratspahic
Length2h 12m
About this audiobook
Clear Thinking Under Pressure is a practical guide to reasoning well when evidence is incomplete, incentives conflict, and decisions have consequences. It combines logic, probability, bias awareness, manipulation defense, systems thinking, strategy, and game theory in one usable framework.
Through original examples—from suspicious payment requests and misleading charts to overloaded workflows, negotiations, and platform selection—the book shows how to test assumptions, recognize pressure, map feedback, compare options, and make decisions that adapt as new information arrives.
Checklists, templates, a 30-day practice plan, and a selected reading list help readers turn concepts into habits without treating every interaction as a contest or every uncertainty as a reason for paralysis.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (38)
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GenreSelf-Help
Length2 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction — Better Thinking Is a Practice
2Chapter 01 — Start With the Question, Not the Answer
3Chapter 02 — The Anatomy of an Argument
4Chapter 03 — Logic Without the Theater
5Chapter 04 — Probability, Base Rates, and Updating
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6Chapter 05 — Cognitive Bias and the Stories We Believe
7Chapter 06 — Skepticism Without Cynicism
8Chapter 07 — Manipulation as a Pattern, Not a Personality Type
9Chapter 08 — Social Engineering Defense
10Chapter 09 — Digital Deception, Dark Patterns, and Information Hygiene
11Chapter 10 — Emotional Hijacking and the Pause Between Feeling and Action
12Chapter 11 — Systems Thinking: See Relationships, Not Just Events
13Chapter 12 — Feedback Loops and Unintended Consequences
14Chapter 13 — Causality, Experiments, and Root-Cause Analysis
15Chapter 14 — Constraints, Bottlenecks, and Leverage Points
16Chapter 15 — Second-Order Effects and the Rebound Problem
17Chapter 16 — Strategy Is a Theory of Change
18Chapter 17 — Scenarios, Pre-Mortems, and Optionality
19Chapter 18 — Decisions Under Uncertainty
20Chapter 19 — Game Theory: When Other People Respond
21Chapter 20 — Cooperation, Trust, and Repeated Games
22Chapter 21 — Negotiation, Signaling, and Commitments
23Chapter 22 — Ethical Competition and Avoiding the Zero-Sum Trap
24Chapter 23 — Integrated Case: Choosing a New Platform
25Chapter 24 — Build a Personal Operating System for Clear Thinking
26Conclusion — Judgment Is the Ability to Keep Learning
27Appendix A — The One-Page Decision Brief
28Appendix B — Manipulation and Verification Checklist
29Appendix C — Systems Map and Pre-Mortem
30Appendix D — A 30-Day Practice Plan
31Appendix E — A Compact Glossary
32Further Reading — Selected Starting Points
33About the Author
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