This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
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.
Contributors include:
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 Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world
Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence
Lisa Randall on effective theorizing
Brian Eno on “ecological vision”
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
Review
“This Will Make You Smarter gives us better tools to think about the world and is eminently practical for life day to day. The people in this book lead some of the hottest fields.” (DAVID BROOKS, from the Foreword)
“The world’s smartest website … Edge is a salon for the world’s finest minds” (The Guardian)
“Edge.org has become an epicenter of bleeding-edge insight across science, technology and beyond, hosting conversations with some of our era’s greatest thinkers” (Atlantic Monthly)
“A winning combination of good writers, good science and serious broader concerns.” (KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review))
About the Author
The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.
Product details
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Print Length : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780062109392
ISBN-13 : 978-0062109392
Publisher : Harper Perennial; Original Edition (February 14, 2012)
Language: : English
ASIN : 0062109391
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