The Truth Detective (Hardback)
A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
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How to navigate a world of deception and find the truth using the rules of poker.
'Revealing' ANGELA SAINI
'Thrilling' PHILLIP BALL
'Deserves to be widely read' ALOM SHAHA
This is a book about getting to the truth.
At the poker table you need certain skills to win. The more Alex O'Brien played competitively, the more she realised those skills are essential in everyday life too. From reading body language to calculating risk, dealing with uncertainty and separating emotion from facts, her toolkit will help you make better decisions and understand what's happening around you.
Offering insights from the latest psychology, neuroscience, game theory and more, you'll encounter new ideas and ways of thinking from pioneering researchers and experts in their field. With O'Brien as your guide, you'll learn to see clearly, think carefully and cut through the noise of a complex world.
The Truth Detective (Ebook)
A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
Preorder from
How to navigate a world of deception and find the truth using the rules of poker.
'Revealing' ANGELA SAINI
'Thrilling' PHILLIP BALL
'Deserves to be widely read' ALOM SHAHA
This is a book about getting to the truth.
At the poker table you need certain skills to win. The more Alex O'Brien played competitively, the more she realised those skills are essential in everyday life too. From reading body language to calculating risk, dealing with uncertainty and separating emotion from facts, her toolkit will help you make better decisions and understand what's happening around you.
Offering insights from the latest psychology, neuroscience, game theory and more, you'll encounter new ideas and ways of thinking from pioneering researchers and experts in their field. With O'Brien as your guide, you'll learn to see clearly, think carefully and cut through the noise of a complex world.
The Truth Detective (Audiobook)
A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
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How to navigate a world of deception and find the truth using the rules of poker.
From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it like one, with every day critical thinking.
In The Truth Detective, journalist and competitive poker player Alex O'Brien shows how we can survive and make better life decisions using the rules of the game. In a world full of uncertainty and incomplete information, this is a book about getting to the truth.
You'll meet a host of experts who break down the science of navigating a time in which fact and fiction are becoming increasingly hard to tell apart. With psychological research and insight from a range of professionals – from FBI agents and behavioural economists to poker aces and bounty hunters – O'Brien assembles strategies we can use to analyse the information that surround us in our day to day.
Tackle life like a poker player and let The Truth Detective guide your through the jungle of disinformation – and on to success in the game of life.
Reviews for The Truth Detective
Angela Saini, journalist and author of 'Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong' and 'The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule'
Alom Shaha, author of Mr Shaha’s Marvellous Machines, Mr Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder and Why Don’t Things Fall Up
Richard Fisher, author of The Long View
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times bestselling author of Everybody Lies and Don't Trust Your Gut
Philip Ball, broadcaster and author of Bright Earth, Critical Mass, The Modern Myths and How Life Works
Roger Highfield, Science Director of The Science Museum and author of Virtual You
Jennifer Shahade, author of 'Chess Queens' and two time US Women’s Chess Champion
Erin Lydon President, Poker Power
Kara Scott, broadcaster and World Series of Poker anchor
Nicholas Booth, former technology editor of The Times and author The Search for Life on Mars
Captivating, gripping and the best book I've read since 'Thinking Fast and Slow'
O'Brien doesn't pull any punches, and examining the bluffs we seek and the bullshit we find in life, [she] combines a number of studies, sources and complex thoughts into a case for critical thinking. This is a book that should be read and savoured in full; it pulls many of the great concerns of the day such as AI, climate change, fake news, pandemic issues, and the power of social media into a riveting page turner. As soon as I started reading The Truth Detective I literally couldn't stop ... do someone you love a favour and give them the gift of this book.
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Dara O’Kearney, former ultra runner and author of The Poker Solved Series
Subhadra Das, author of Civilised: Ten Lies that Made the West