{"id":578,"date":"2012-10-30T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markkirkwood.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2012-10-30T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:36:51","slug":"predictably-irrational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Predictably Irrational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Predictably Irrational <\/em>by\u00a0Dan Ariely<\/p>\n<p>In this book, Ariely thoroughly challenges readers&#8217; assumptions about making decisions that are perceived to be based on rational thought. After studying this book (and I have studied a lot of economics), you will fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#Chapter_summary\">Chapter summaries:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_Truth_about_Relativity\">The Truth about Relativity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_Fallacy_of_Supply_and_Demand\">The Fallacy of Supply and Demand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_Cost_of_Free\">The Cost of Free<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#Being_Paid_vs._A_Friendly_Favor\">Being Paid vs. A Friendly Favor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#Emotion_in_Decision_Making\">Emotion in Decision Making<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_Problem_of_Procrastination_and_Self-control\">The Problem of Procrastination and Self-control<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_High_Price_of_Ownership\">The High Price of Ownership<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_Effect_of_Expectations\">The Effect of Expectations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictably_Irrational#The_Power_of_Price\">The Power of Price<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictably Irrational by\u00a0Dan Ariely In this book, Ariely thoroughly challenges readers&#8217; assumptions about making decisions that are perceived to be based on rational thought. After studying this book (and I have studied a lot of economics), you will fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick&#8230; Chapter summaries: The Truth about Relativity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.markkirkwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}