The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

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Deliberate practice is a method of developing expertise by breaking down complex skills into smaller components and practicing each component until it is mastered. The solution is to use the PMI technique to improve your thinking. The PMI technique is a thinking technique to find the Plus Points, Minus Points, and Interesting Points about the issue before you form an opinion. The unconscious tendency to apply our brainpower only when the conclusions will suit our predetermined goal. It may include the confirmation or myside bias (preferentially seeking and remembering information that suits our goal) and discomfirmation bias (the tendency to be especially sceptical about evidence that does not fit our goal). In politics, for instance, we are far more likely to critique evidence concerning an issue such as climate change if it does not fit with our existing worldview. Every year brings more books about how stupid we are. Apparently humans are impulsive, gullible and prone to making all sorts of bad decisions. We are also fascinated by our shortcomings, if the shelves at airport bookstores are anything to go by. The latest contribution to the pile is from David Robson, a London-based science journalist, who offers an intriguing angle on our flawed habits of mind. In “The Intelligence Trap,” he argues not only that we are walking, talking, error-making machines, but also that the cleverest among us may make the biggest mistakes.

Part 3 turns to the science of learning and memory. Despite their brain power, intelligent people sometimes struggle to learn well, reaching a plateau in their abilities that fails to reflect their potential. EBW can help to break that vicious cycle by offering three rules for deep learning — rules that explain why East Asian education systems are so successful. Growth mindset” is the belief that our intelligence and abilities can be developed through hard work, dedication and persistence. Emotions can also affect our thinking and it is important to be aware of our emotional state and how it may be influencing our decisions. I run into the Intelligence Trap a lot at work. It usually happens when somebody wants to play the Devil’s advocate.Our tendency to see others’ flaws, while being oblivious to the prejudices and errors in our own reasoning. Moving on, the author recaps a good deal of the content of Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman? which would be great if I hadn't read it, but I had. This makes me think that he has similarly recapped the content of other books which I have not read and which are referred to in the text. So the value of this volume will depend on one's prior reading. Mindfulness or the practice of being fully present and engaged in the moment can also help us overcome the intelligence trap by allowing us to focus on the current task and avoid distractions. The most effective thinkers I know, first find what’s right. They explore the other person’s perspective, until the other person feels heard. After years of careful development and verification of the various sub-tests, the first iteration of the “Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking” was published at the end of 2016. Besides measures of the common cognitive biases and heuristics, it also included probabilistic and statistical reasoning skills—such as the ability to assess risk—that could improve our rationality, and questionnaires concerning contaminated mindware such as anti-science attitudes.

Now if you put your bias aside and asked yourself, “Who is more intelligent, Magnus or Elon?”, would you be able to answer the question easily? Probably not.It takes just a handful of seconds, or a matter of moments, and it completely reopens my perspective again. Several different learning styles are identified, visual, auditory etc. We see five levels of learning and mastery of a subject or skill, and that qualified people often forget the details they learned over time. Logic puzzles.

Tiedetoimittaja David Robsonin Älykkyysloukku on kultakaivos! Hän aloittaa esittelemällä tunnettuja huippuälykkäitä ihmisiä, jotka ovat intoutuneet uskomaan mitä mielettömimpiin salaliittoihin ja humpuukiin. Ammattiurallaan he ovat saavuttaneet huikeita tuloksia, mutta harkinta ja arviointikyky eivät ole kantaneet siviiliin asti. Harva meistä on huippuälykäs, mutta samat päättelyn sudenkuopat odottavat meitä kaikkia. Yksilöiden lisäksi Robson esittelee toimivan tiimin tunnusmerkkejä, ja antaa tässäkin runsaasti esimerkkejä huippuyksilöistä koostuvista tiimeistä niin urheilussa (Englannin maajoukkue), teollisuudessa (Deepwater Horizon) kuin bisneksessä (Nokia..), jotka huikeasta lahjakkuudestaan ja resursseistaan huolimatta epäonnistuvat surkeasti.An engrossing standout in the thinking genre that will appeal to anyone who has ever been wrongheaded.