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The Invisible Gorilla And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us (2011)

by Christopher Chabris(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

000731731X (ISBN13: 9780007317318)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

review 1: An ingenious book that highlights how our minds don't always do us a good favor due to limited cognitive abilities. It's a book that belong in the category as "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, and "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb because of the similar topics shared among them such as cognitive limitations and the narrative fallacy. I also noticed how the writers are subtly against business icons and journalists because of their tendencies to simplify the world. Perhaps the irony is its reference to Malcolm Gladwell, of whom the writer criticizes his writing yet praises him nevertheless because of his contribution to the New York in 2001 that attributed to this book's success.
review 2: I gave this book 3, but barely, it is pretty close to 2 in my o... morepinion. Almost all of us saw the experiment of "The Invisible Gorilla", we all counted how many passes of the ball the team had done, and many of us missed the gorilla, and then were amazed of not seeing such an obvious thing. This book is about this topic, and it mentions the word gorilla probably more than I could imagine possible, which means that it is quite repetitive and unnecessary at the beginning, and quite annoying later on. The book handles a few different everyday illusions that work well on humans. The illusions of Attention, Memory, Confidence, Knowledge, and Potential. Basically we are easily deceived by them (a confident person can probably convince us quite easily, and we trust our memory way too much) and we are not as good in understanding that these illusions work on us or admitting it. There are endless amount of examples in the book, demonstrating the differences between what we think happens and what really happens. If you are interested in the examples, then read the book. But in my opinion there are way too many and they are not turning the book to be any stronger or more compelling. less

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