Thinking About How Our World Really Works in several ways is a different kind of self-improvement book. Most importantly, perhaps, is that it straight-forwardly challenges its readers to do something that for a lot of reasons many of us too often avoid doing. That something is to think for ourselves. This book identifies a sizable selection of things that many people consider crucial to understand when they decide to make better lives for themselves. It also suggests some ways to think about these things more profitably. For the first time in history, a significant portion of the earth's human inhabitants have both the capability and knowledge they need to significantly influence the circumstances of their lives. But using these newly available resources in a manner that is most advantageous to us, both individually and collectively, is sometimes proving to be a really hard thing to do. It has become increasingly obvious that we indeed can benefit from continually examining how we are living our lives. The goal for Thinking About How Our World Really Works is to provide its readers with meaningful and useful assistance for these efforts.