This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series, 11)

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Featuring a foreword by DavidBrooks, ThisWill Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideasto expand every mind.Whatscientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? Thisis the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s mostinfluential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers ofpsychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising andenlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think aboutyourself and the world.Contributors include:Daniel Kahneman on the “focusingillusion” Jonah Lehrer on controllingattention Richard Dawkins onexperimentation Aubrey De Grey on conquering ourfear of the unknown Martin Seligman on theingredients of well-beingNicholas Carr on managing“cognitive load” Steven Pinker on win-winnegotiating Daniel Goleman on understandingour connection to the natural worldMatt Ridley on tapping collectiveintelligence Lisa Randall on effective theorizingBrian Eno on “ecological vision” J. Craig Venter on the multiplepossible origins of life Helen Fisher on temperament Sam Harris on the flow of thoughtLawrence Krauss on living withuncertainty