This book is a really helpful resource for exploring relationship patterns and improving communication. Gleb breaks down the differences between biases and different distortions that effect daily interactions. An academic read with a lot of helpful information.

The author's approach to focus on the blindspots that are present in our relationships in order to strengthen them was a different type of approach, but it made a lot of sense once I started to read. I found this book to be easy to understand and also to be very helpful!

I have mixed feelings about this. It is very well done, but it is a lot of work (which may be necessary, given the topic). It's basically a series of ways to raise one's awareness. It will probably benefit every one in some way. Unfortunately, there are some obvious techniques such as taking 10 breaths or delaying judgement when meeting others for the first time. However, there are a number of the approaches that may be new and helpful. The exercised in the first chapter will likely be overwhelming so it probably would have been better to break them up.

Thanks very much for the ARC for review!!

I got a digital review copy of this book via NetGalley and liked reading the book.

What I liked about the book:
- Clearly articulated the different cognitive biases and some interesting strategies that could potentially help us stay away from these biases.
- The clear emphasis on doing the exercises at the end of every chapter (covering similar cognitive biases) to help us not just become aware of these biases but also have given it enough thought and visualised the way we will react to a situation that would trigger one of these biases. More and better practice enables us to potentially move away from these biases.
- Nice little stories of how common people like us (and his own story) could fall prey to these biases and how could we have handled them differently.
- SImple language without much jargons.

What could have been different:

- I felt that the book summarised what are some commonly known biases and packaged them in an interesting way. I felt the author could have pushed a bit further to explore these biases in different and more interesting situations to make the stories more interesting and compelling.

Other than this,I think the book is a great starting point to someone who wants to learn about cognitive biases and what role they play in strengthening or ruining relationships.

This book is a little too jargon-y and overblown for me. Did not finish this one. Need to fill in more to make the 100 character limit but don't have more to add.