The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

Reviews

Ashok Krishna

There was this stinging comment under that post – ‘Can’t you differentiate fake news from the real ones? In an age when ultra-nationalists and bigots are taking over every public forum to spew venom by spreading lies and misinformation, books like these can boost rational thinking and logical abilities.

There are still people that believe that the world is flat and, at present, that COVID is a hoax, despite glaring evidences staring at their faces. Starting with how we mistake IQ as a measure of intelligence, though people with much lower IQ scores often outperform such ‘geniuses’, the book lays down its arguments for how often intelligence is nothing but thin ice – cool and shiny but fragile and pointless. Neither did he bother to check the truth before posting it on a professional forum like LinkedIn.

This student, in his late teens, was said to have secured two patents in his name already and he was also said to have rejected the invitation from the then US President Donald Trump to join NASA. This book speaks about such weaknesses and elicits lessons from their mistakes.