About the Book: The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise your Thinking and Make
Wiser Decisions
We assume that smarter people are less prone to error. But greater education
and expertise can often amplify our mistakes while rendering us blind to our
biases. This is the intelligence trap. Drawing on the latest behavioural science
and historical examples from Socrates to Benjamin Franklin, David Robson
demonstrates how to apply our intelligence more wisely; identify bias and
enhance our rationality quotient; read and regulate our emotions; fine-tune our
intuition; navigate ambiguity and uncertainty; and think more flexibly about
seemingly intractable problems.The twenty-first century presents us with complex
problems that demand a wiser way