Rock Paper Scissors

You know, your behavior is very predictable. Especially when you're trying to be unpredictable. This situation is not specific to you, it is valid for most of us. And just being aware of this fact can change the equation in your favor.

William Poundstone first shows the effects of our predictability on our lives with crucial - sometimes even painful - examples, and then offers reasonable and applicable suggestions to turn the disadvantages it brings into advantages. How can it benefit us in many areas, from our investment choices to bargaining for our package memberships, from games of chance to putting the goalkeeper in the wrong corner, from knowing what obvious thought patterns the people we come into contact with in our daily lives make decisions, or seeing which weaknesses are blamed on us by companies that are always looking for new ways to make us consume more? shows that it can.

Rock Paper Scissors offers the closest thing to a world where mind reading is not yet possible: It introduces us to our predictability.