This Will Make You Smarter

New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson, Khristine Hvam

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.

This Will Make You Smarter features 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 C. Dennett on benefiting from cycles; Jaron Lanier on resisting delusion; Frank Wilczek on the brain's hidden layers; Clay Shirky on the “80/20 rule”; Daniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world; V. S. Ramachandran on paradigm shifts; Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence; John McWhorter on path dependence; Lisa Randall on effective theorizing; Brian Eno on “ecological vision”; Richard Thaler on rooting out false concepts; J. Craig Venter on the multiple possible origins of life; Helen Fisher on temperament; Sam Harris on the flow of thought; and Lawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty.

©2012 Edge Foundation, Incorporated (P)2013 Tantor

Excellent.

This book Opened many doors to other excellent books which is helping me understand the world from a geological, biological, physical perspectives.

Epiphanies

A source that I have been seeking. Tantalizing, intriguing, fun. Well narrated and packed full of good information. I enjoyed it so much, I am now going to buy his other audiobooks and get the hard copy of this one. Happy Listening!

Great Book

Read the book now listening to the audible. It's awesome. A lot of these ideas are interesting and thought provoking.

Big Interests

It rouses interest in so many subjects. I listened to the Audiobook and had to buy the written version so I could take notes.

Main narrator is hard to listen to

I love the Brockman Edge series. I probably would have bought all of them but honestly, the voice and narration style is almost unbearable