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This book is just what my son needed! Throughout the book are gems like wiifm (what’s in it for me? Not all schools have high school support, and this book offers many free resources, and diverse professional mentors. My son was mesmerized by all the ...  Read More

Bodur is a counselor at heart. The extracurricular project ideas, which are generously provided, are unique and will get the juices flowing for students to start thinking about their own.

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Covers thirty models in an easy to understand method. My only qualm, and this is semantics at this point, is his choice to include second-order thinking in the speed category, as visualizing -nth order consequences definitely requires more thinking ti...  Read More

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It is so full of misunderstandings, misrepresentations, and misconceptions of the models it describes that i found myself struggling just to get through it. It reads as if the examples and descriptions were drawn from skimming random web pages. At tim...  Read More

Seems like mental models are the topic du jour. He admits to not understanding much math. I doubt kahneman would recognize the descriptions of system #1 and system #2 from the description in this book.

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