Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things In Seconds, And Are All Pretty sure We Are Way Above Average, by Joseph T. Hallinan
I was recommended this book by an online friend of mine, and although I had not read the book before I was generally familiar with a great deal of the book’s contents, largely because the author looks at fairly familiar aspects of human behavior where people are particularly error prone [1]. There happen to be a lot of these areas, but the author shows himself to be at least a couple of steps above those who seek to mock people for our limitations, but rather instead views a recognition of human limitation as a way for us to better shape the world in which we live, so that we do not expect of ourselves or of others what is unreasonable or that we…
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