Afdelingen for magisk tænkning - og det utrolige potentiale i middelmådighed

If you think that everything has to be perfect and preferably unique – and find it hard to be at ease when a picture hangs slightly crooked or there is a typo in a text, then this is not the book for you. Or else you are exactly the person who should read Morten Münster's latest book, which celebrates good-enough solutions, the art of being realistic and the ability to let things go.

Not because there is much new under the sun, but because the book hammers home that the road to success runs through realism rather than the exceptional. Throughout the book there are countless examples of how solutions are overdone, even though there are perfectly good existing alternatives that could be refined – or perhaps simply copied. Just think of newer cars where everything now has to be controlled from a touchscreen.

It costs something to maximise – to weigh the pros and cons – constantly. And it pays to settle: to make a choice and then move on in the cases where we are, after all, out in the department of magical thinking. Nobody knows any way.

The book is incredibly well written – and humorous – but for some it will no doubt be too superficial and too light in tone. So if you are into heavy, contemplative books, you should turn instead to Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow". If you are into razor-sharp points served as light calories and a captivating style, just get started.