Featuring a foreword by David

Brooks, This

Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas

to expand every mind.

What

scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This

is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most

influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of

psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and

enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about

yourself and the world.

Contributors include:

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  Daniel Kahneman on the “focusing
  
  illusion”

  
  


• 
  

  Jonah Lehrer on controlling
  
  attention

  
  


• 
  

  Richard Dawkins on
  
  experimentation

  
  


• 
  

  Aubrey De Grey on conquering our
  
  fear of the unknown

  
  


• 
  

  Martin Seligman on the
  
  ingredients of well-being

  
  


• 
  

  Nicholas Carr on managing
  
  “cognitive load”

  
  


• 
  

  Steven Pinker on win-win
  
  negotiating

  
  


• 
  

  Daniel Goleman on understanding
  
  our connection to the natural world

  
  


• 
  

  Matt Ridley on tapping collective
  
  intelligence

  
  


• 
  

  Lisa Randall on effective theorizing

  
  


• 
  

  Brian Eno on “ecological vision”

  
  


• 
  

  J. Craig Venter on the multiple
  
  possible origins of life

  
  


• 
  

  Helen Fisher on temperament

  
  


• 
  

  Sam Harris on the flow of thought

  
  


• 
  

  Lawrence Krauss on living with
  
  uncertainty