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This will make you smarter, new scientific concepts to improve your thinking, edited by John Brockman

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This will make you smarter, new scientific concepts to improve your thinking, edited by John Brockman

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eng

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General adult

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This will make you smarter

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sound recording audiobook CD

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edited by John Brockman

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new scientific concepts to improve your thinking

Summary

Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, and arguments. Every year the author sets them a question, this year that question was: What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit? In this book, their answers are collected and explores philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines

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"This will make you smarter" features 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; and more. With a foreword by columnist David Brooks, "This will make you smarter" presents some of the best wisdom from today's leading thinkers -- to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow. -- from back cover

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