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from some of Thomas Edison's worst ideas to failures at NASA--while offering practical advice to avoid mistakes based on the timeless lessons of Benjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman, and Daniel Kahneman. Brno, Zelný trh 10Po–pá 11–19 hod. Our purpose is to invest in the lives of young people and our larger community. The Intelligence Trap explores cutting-edge ideas in our understanding of intelligence and expertise, including "motivated reasoning," "meta-forgetfulness," and "functional stupidity. Our goal is to transform individuals, people, and society through books, events, hospitality, and an infectious work-ethic. cz " David Robson reveals the surprising ways that even the brightest minds and most talented organizations can go wrong?
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Ashok Krishna
A. The fact is, this message was proven to be a fake information more than a year ago, but our senior professional had no clue about it. It gets a tad slow at times, but is a worthy read nevertheless! This student, in his late teens, was said to have secured two patents in his name already and he was also said to have rejected the invitation from the then US President Donald Trump to join NASA.
A couple of months ago, I came across a post on LinkedIn, where a senior professional with an IIM degree had shared a post about an Indian student. The tragedy is that most, if not all, of these people are well-educated and supposedly of sane minds. Curiosity and intellectual humility. The logical fallacies that dominate their thinking is all laid bare in this book.
Neither did he bother to check the truth before posting it on a professional forum like LinkedIn. Starting from a Nobel prize winning scientist that denied climate change and HIV to detailing the whims of Steve Jobs, the man who made Apple what it is today, the book delves into the logical fallacies that plagues every intelligent mind.
In an age when ultra-nationalists and bigots are taking over every public forum to spew venom by spreading lies and misinformation, books like these can boost rational thinking and logical abilities. ’Well, we all have that one friend (or many, as in my case) that shares fake news or unverified information on their social media posts or through WhatsApp. I have always wondered about what makes these people, most of them well-educated and in respectable professions, share fake information without ever checking its veracity. This book is an apt answer to that question.