Humans are innately illogical, and make unconscious decisions based largely on our emotions. Yet when confronted with a business or personal challenge, we have become obsessed with absolute logic, rationality, algorithms and data, and it’s threatening to stunt us: politically, socially and economically.
What if there were an alternative to logic and rationality – a ‘psycho-logic’ – that was far more pervasive and powerful than we realise and that, when employed correctly, would create the kind of magic (or alchemy) most businesses only dream of?
In his latest book, Alchemy, Rory Sutherland draws on case studies and real world examples to reveal how we must learn to identify and understand the basics of this ‘psycho-logic’ and how this will help us achieve what we want and need to achieve.