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The Psychology of Stupidity

By: Jean-Francois Marmion
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan, Hillary Huber, Mark Deakins
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Summary

The Number One international bestseller featuring contributions from Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Ryan Holiday, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, and Aaron James.

‘We need books like this one’
Steven Pinker

Stupidity is all around us, from the colleagues who won’t stop hitting ‘reply all’ to the former school friends posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to battle idiocy, we must first understand it. In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world’s leading psychologists and thinkers – including a Nobel Prize winner – will show you . . .

· Why smart people sometimes believe in utter nonsense
· How our lazy brains cause us to make the wrong decisions
· Why trying to debate with fools is a trap
· How media manipulation and Internet overstimulation makes us dumber
· Why the stupidest people don’t think they’re stupid

As long as there have been humans there has been human stupidity, but with wit and wisdom these great thinkers can help us understand this persistent human affliction.
©2020 Jean-Francois Marmion (P)2020 Penguin Random House LLC
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Unnecesary

This is click bait. Very superficial information given. loose thread throughout. The title draws you in, the content leaves you feeling stupid for allowing you to do that. Not many take aways at all.

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Very little to hear here

I'm the stupid one for persevering with this, very limited views on every topic, most of its a rant. If you use social media you're stupid, if scientists 100 yrs ago don't understand quantum physics they are stupid, blah blah bkah

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