About the Book: Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and
the Social Order—and What We Can Do About It
The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an
underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwells
Blink, Dan Arielys Predictably Irrational, and Susan Cains Quiet, Fool Proof
tracks the implications of the sucker construct from personal choices to
cultural conflict, ultimately charting an unexpected and empowering path
forward.
In the American moral vernacular, we have a whole thesaurus for victims of
exploitation. They are suckers (born every minute), fools (not suffered gladly),
dupes,