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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1FORGETTING

Why You Won’t Remember the Contents of This Book—Thereby Retaining the Most Important Information

2LEARNING

Why We Are Bad at Rote Learning, but Better at Understanding the World

3MEMORY

Why a False Memory Is Better Than None at All

4BLACKOUT

Why We Choke under Pressure and the Secret Formula for Fending Off Stage Fright

5TIME

Why We Always Misjudge It—Thereby Forging Valuable Memories

6BOREDOM

Why We Have Trouble Switching Ourselves Off—and How Daydreams Evoke the Muse

7DISTRACTION

Why We Are So Flighty and Which Distractions Can Lead to More Creativity

8MATHEMATICS

Why the Brain Calculates Best without Numbers

9DECISIONS

Why We Risk Too Much—Yet Still Choose Wisely

10SELECTION

Why Selecting Is So Agonizing—and How We Still Manage to Choose the Best Option

11PIGEONHOLING

How Prejudices Can Help Us, How They Can Harm Us—and How to Avoid Stereotypical Pitfalls

12MOTIVATION

How Our Inner Deadbeat Holds Us Back—and How We Can Inspire Others

13CREATIVITY

Why We Can’t Be Innovative at the Push of a Button— Yet We Always Have New Thoughts

14PERFECTIONISM

Why We Need Mistakes in Order to Improve

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