The Intelligence Trap
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'Essential reading for anyone who wants to think more clearly.' - ROLF DOBELLI, multi-million copy bestselling author of The Art of Thinking Clearly
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 us 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.
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„Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don‘t learn how to learn from that failure.“
A great book about how intelligence tricks you into making mistakes that could‘ve been prevented or thinking you know things even if you don‘t. The content is based on scientific research that explains certain characteristics of such an intelligence trap, like biases, a fixed mindset, lack of awareness, dysrationalia, … very well. Reading this was really interesting and helpful to keep in mind for making less mistakes. It also included the important point that intelligence is not all about your IQ, other skills which can be trained are necessary as well.
Description
'Essential reading for anyone who wants to think more clearly.' - ROLF DOBELLI, multi-million copy bestselling author of The Art of Thinking Clearly
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 us 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.
Book Information
Posts
„Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don‘t learn how to learn from that failure.“
A great book about how intelligence tricks you into making mistakes that could‘ve been prevented or thinking you know things even if you don‘t. The content is based on scientific research that explains certain characteristics of such an intelligence trap, like biases, a fixed mindset, lack of awareness, dysrationalia, … very well. Reading this was really interesting and helpful to keep in mind for making less mistakes. It also included the important point that intelligence is not all about your IQ, other skills which can be trained are necessary as well.