The Intelligence Trap
Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
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Publisher Description
We assume that smarter people are less prone to error. But education and expertise can sometimes make our mistakes worse and our blind spots bigger. Why did genius Steve Jobs make errors of judgement? Why do doctors misdiagnose 10-15% of their patients? Why do Nobel Prize winners spread fake news? This is the intelligence trap.
Drawing on the latest behavioural science and great brains from Socrates to Benjamin Franklin, David Robson demonstrates how to apply our intelligence more wisely. He shows how we can identify bias, read and regulate our emotions, fine-tune our intuition, navigate ambiguity and uncertainty and think more flexibly.
Whether you are a NASA scientist or a school student, The Intelligence Trap offers a new toolkit to realise your full potential.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Scientist David Robson takes us on a fascinating journey into human intelligence, asking why smart people do stupid things. Take, for example, the English physicist who carried a suitcase from Bolivia to Argentina for a glamour model he’d never met. How did one of the world’s leading authorities particle phenomenology not realise he was smuggling cocaine? Robson has the answers, exploring how academically brilliant minds are prone to making disastrous mistakes and why our own political, social and religious beliefs can skew they way we apply our intelligence. Alongside entertaining tales of real-life brain farts, Robson presents cutting-edge science in easy-to-follow prose. In an age of fake news and mis-information, this book isn’t just thought-provoking, it might change the way you think forever.
