The Intelligence Trap
Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
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Simon Slater
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David Robson
About this listen
'Ceaselessly fascinating and brilliantly written' WILL STORR
'A startling, provocative and potently useful book' SUNDAY TIMES
A toolkit to help smart people overcome their blind spots and maximise their potential, from the author of The Expectation Effect.
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.
©2019 David Robson (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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- Demetri
- 15-02-20
Groundbreaking insights
Wonderful book that introduces the concept of evidence based wisdom. Covers personal life, education and organizational life. Filled with practical insights on how one can make better decisions, reduce the impact of our hard wired cognitive blind spots and generally live wiser lives
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- Richard McFerran
- 05-03-23
Great
The author has collated a lot of evidence presented by a wide range of authors on a diverse range of subjects. Whilst I have listened to many of the books he refrerences I certainly thought this book was a good investment of my listening time.
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- Montberte
- 21-04-19
Good easy to read book
In particular the education and teamwork section at the end of this book is worth its purchase. The remainder of the book is interesting but less informative.
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- Lenny montague
- 10-06-19
The Bible of the new age
Well communicated, and consistently objective. This book will tear you apart and build you back up with shiny new parts and some good scaffolding.
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- Andris Racko
- 04-06-20
Super good!
Wery good book, a lot of good peris data about reserches and many waluable leeds to next books and thinks to learn.
Easy and understandible, enjoy to listen. I will listen it agein after a while.
The think about "Reflective Competence" Was new to me! 👍
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- sadhia khan
- 05-10-19
Interesting points, quite academic
I think within a number of good ideas are raised. However, it can get a little bit tedious. A summary would be great.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-03-21
Most inspiring book in a long time.
Essential for understanding other's apparent stupidity and, crucially, one self's!
Take it from an expert...
Recommended!!!
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- Richard Copus
- 11-01-21
Makes you think.
This is a tremendous way of bringing together some really fascinating research into how we decide and think. The narrative throughout makes for a good listen (read) and allows the science to shine through in a really accessible way.
I think there is something for everyone in this and I challenge you not to take something away for you to work on!
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