Reviews - The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

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The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

Good survey of the issues around “intelligence“ and why it’s a terrible metric for life. At times the examples are a little surface level. And as with a lot of these books the impression I ultimately leave with is that we don’t really understand intelligence how how we think in any robust way.

Talking about emotional, analytical, social intelligences makes me just think that the word intelligence is more of a descriptor than an actual noun. Some sort of weird combination of experience, competency, luck, and the sort of raw horsepower that most people talk about. But at that point we’re talking about something different. And as with this book and many others, I think the overall message is that we prioritize narrative descriptors such as intelligence over actual accurate interpretations of real life.

sebswann's review against another edition

5.0

"Whether you are a forensic scientist, doctor, student, teacher, financier, or aeronautical engineer, it pays to humbly recognize your limits and the possibility of failure, take account of ambiguity and uncertainty, remain curious and open to new information, recognize the potential to grow from errors, and actively question everything."

If you like books about thinking and intelligence; Robson draws on insightful research and fascinating anecdotes to unpack why smart people make dumb mistakes. This book is filled with important lessons on humility, curiosity, introspection, openness, and learning.

tanjis's review against another edition

3.0

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

flock5229's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

julieabe89's review against another edition

4.0

informative medium-paced

This was so interesting. I found the reasons behind why smart people make stupid mistakes fascinating. It also gives you strategies to avoid the intelligence trap that I think are great.