The Intelligence Trap by David Robson

The Intelligence Trap by David Robson

Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. Steve Jobs treated a treatable cancer with fruit juice. Robson's subject is the specific failure mode of intelligent people, which is not stupidity but the ability to construct excellent arguments for whatever they already believe.

He covers motivated reasoning, the bias blind spot — intelligent people are worse at spotting their own biases, not better — earned dogmatism in experts, and why entire organisations of clever people produce catastrophes. The second half is about the cure: intellectual humility, actively open-minded thinking, and pre-mortems.

One of the sharpest recent books on thinking, and unusually practical about the remedy.

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