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"You need to read this book." -Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A great book changes the world you live in, revealing mysteries you didn't even know were there. This is a great book." -Sendhil Mullainathan, MacArthur fellow and author of Scarcity

Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract offers a scientific appreciation of why we underuse subtraction-and how to access its untapped potential.


We pile on "to-dos" but don't consider "stop-doings." We create incentives for good behavior, but don't get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don't prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: we don't subtract. Klotz's pioneering research shows us what is true whether we're building Lego models, cities, grilled-cheese sandwiches, or strategic plans: Our minds tend to add before taking away, and this is holding us back.

But we have a choice-our blind spot need not go on taking its toll. Subtract arms us with the science of less and empowers us to revolutionize our day-to-day lives and shift how we move through the world. More or less.

"You need to read this book." -Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A great book changes the world you live in, revealing mysteries you didn't even know were there. This is a great book." -Sendhil Mullainathan, MacArthur fellow and author of Scarcity

Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract offers a scientific appreciation of why we underuse subtraction-and how to access its untapped potential.


We pile on "to-dos" but don't consider "stop-doings." We create incentives for good behavior, but don't get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don't prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: we don't subtract. Klotz's pioneering research shows us what is true whether we're building Lego models, cities, grilled-cheese sandwiches, or strategic plans: Our minds tend to add before taking away, and this is holding us back.

But we have a choice-our blind spot need not go on taking its toll. Subtract arms us with the science of less and empowers us to revolutionize our day-to-day lives and shift how we move through the world. More or less.

Über den Autor
Leidy Klotz studies and writes about how we transform things from how they are to how we want them to be. His research on the science of problem-solving has appeared in both Nature and Science and has been covered in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post among national newspapers on five continents. A professor at the University of Virginia, Leidy has authored more than 80 original research articles and writes on applications of his research for design, art, parenting, personal finance, climate change and many other fields.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Other Kind of Change

PART I: Seeing More
1. Overlooking Less: Legos, the Lab, and Beyond
2. The Biology of More: Our Adding Instincts
3. The Temple and the City: Adding Brings Civilization, and Civilization Brings More
4. More-ality: Time, Money, and the Modern Gospel of Adding

PART II: Sharing Less
5. Noticeable Less: Finding and Sharing Subtraction
6. Scaling Subtraction: Using Less to Change the System
7. A Legacy of Less: Subtracting in the Anthropocene
8. From Information to Wisdom: Learning by Subtracting

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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Management
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781250249876
ISBN-10: 1250249872
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Klotz, Leidy
Hersteller: Macmillan USA
Flatiron Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: Includes 11 black-and-white photographs throughout
Maße: 203 x 125 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Leidy Klotz
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2022
Gewicht: 0,265 kg
Artikel-ID: 123949706

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