The Wisest One in the Room

How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights

By: Thomas Gilovich, Lee Ross

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you "wise" - wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life.

When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues - someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on an ongoing conflict.

In The Wisest One in the Room, renowned social psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross ask, Why? What do these people know? What are the foundations of their wisdom? And, as professors and researchers who specialize in the study of human behavior, they wonder: What general principles of human psychology are they drawing on to reach these conclusions? They begin by noting that wisdom, unlike intelligence, demands some insight into people - their hopes, fears, passions, and drives. It's true for the executive running a Fortune 500 company, the candidate seeking public office, the artist trying to create work that will speak to the ages, or the single parent trying to get a child through the tumultuous adolescent years. To be wise, they maintain, one must be psych-wise.

©2015 Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross (P)2015 Recorded Books

Very good until…..

The authors wrote a good book until the end and seeds throughout. The Authors pushed a very biased position on Global warming and argued legacy media supports lol and lifted up scientist that support and not those scientists that oppose. I was very disappointed in the hard stance and biased position.

Good coaching but too political at the end

Worth the investment but the 10th chapter felt more like a sermon and “if you disagree you just aren’t as smart as me” statement. Could have easily used the same subject as a case study for influencing people instead of talking down to them.

Not what I hoped for.

I was hoping for inspiration but the information was presented in such a dry manner it was a challenge to finish the book.

Climate Hoax

A 10 hours and six minute book. Only to get 50 minutes from the end to find out the real agenda in this book (Climate Hoax)

Just for the record, I do believe in climate change God‘s version

 2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

There’s not enough dirt people in this world to stop this from happening.

VERY disappointed in climate change coverage

Plenty of interesting, engaging, and research-based findings on behavioural psychology presented in a thought-provoking way.
VERY disappointed that it devolves into the authors pushing their opinion on climate change being settled science and anthropogenic. This despite this being far outside their field of expertise. And they contradict a fundamental tenant of scientific exploration that is central to the ideas shared in this book: science is never "settled". Science is meant to challenge itself, especially its most firmly held ideas. We are constantly gaining new learning and experience that should be carefully considered and used to challenge our current views of the world around us.