I’ve already shared a few items from Rolf Dobelli’s Die Kunst des klugen Handelns: 52 Irrwege, die Sie besser anderen überlassen (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014) — “The Art of Smart Action: 52 Wrong Paths that Would Be Better Left to Others” — and may well share at least two or three more after today. All of Dobelli’s chapters are very brief, because they were all originally newspaper columns. Here’s something closely paraphrased from part of a chapter entitled “Warum Propaganda... Read more