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Excerpt from This Will Make You Smarter: Daniel Kahneman and More: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

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Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind.

What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.

Daniel Kahneman on the “focusing illusion” • Jonah Lehrer on controlling
attention • Richard Dawkins on experimentation • Aubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknown • Martin Seligman on the ingredients of
well-being • Nicholas Carr on managing “cognitive load” • Steven Pinker
on win-win negotiating • Daniel C. Dennett on benefiting from cycles • Jaron Lanier on resisting delusion • Frank Wilczek on the brain’s hidden layers
• Clay Shirky on the “80/20 rule” • Daniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world • V. S. Ramachandran on paradigm shifts
• Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence • John McWhorter on path dependence • Lisa Randall on effective theorizing • Brian Eno on “ecological vision” • Richard Thaler on rooting out false concepts • J. Craig Venter on
the multiple possible origins of life • Helen Fisher on temperament • Sam
Harris on the flow of thought • Lawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty

Language: English

Pages: 100

Format: ebook

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: December 27, 2011

ISBN: 0062197169

ISBN 13: 9780062197160

Excerpt from This Will Make You Smarter: Daniel Kahneman and More: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind.

What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.

Daniel Kahneman on the “focusing illusion” • Jonah Lehrer on controlling
attention • Richard Dawkins on experimentation • Aubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknown • Martin Seligman on the ingredients of
well-being • Nicholas Carr on managing “cognitive load” • Steven Pinker
on win-win negotiating • Daniel C. Dennett on benefiting from cycles • Jaron Lanier on resisting delusion • Frank Wilczek on the brain’s hidden layers
• Clay Shirky on the “80/20 rule” • Daniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world • V. S. Ramachandran on paradigm shifts
• Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence • John McWhorter on path dependence • Lisa Randall on effective theorizing • Brian Eno on “ecological vision” • Richard Thaler on rooting out false concepts • J. Craig Venter on
the multiple possible origins of life • Helen Fisher on temperament • Sam
Harris on the flow of thought • Lawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty

Language: English

Pages: 100

Format: ebook

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Release: December 27, 2011

ISBN: 0062197169

ISBN 13: 9780062197160

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