An eye-opening examination of the stupid things wise people do-and how to cultivate skills to safeguard ourselves from error. ‘As a guideline, I’ve found that the higher brain a guy has, and the better he is educated, the easier it’s been to mystify him’ (Harry Houdini to Arthur Conan Doyle). Wise people are not only just as susceptible to producing mistakes as everyone else- they might be even more susceptible to them. This is actually the ‘cleverness trap,’ the main topic of David Robson’s amazing and provocative reserve. The Intelligence Trap explores cutting-edge suggestions in our knowledge of intelligence and knowledge, including ‘tactical ignorance,’ ‘meta- forgetfulness,’ and ‘functional stupidity.’ Robson reveals the astonishing ways that also the brightest minds & most talented businesses can move wrong-from a few of Thomas Edison’s worst ideas to failures at NASA, Nokia, as well as the FBI. And he presents practical advice to avoid mistakes based on the classic lessons of Benjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman, and Daniel Kahneman.