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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts To Improve Your Thinking (2012)

by John Brockman(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0062109391 (ISBN13: 9780062109392)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Fast pace. Almost a bit too fast. Collection of many essays about some leading edge topic that are being debated now. Interesting. Anything actionable here? Not so sure.Good to challenge your mind with new ideas. From that perspective, very interesting. Would have been five stars if the author had distilled the best few essays and dug in deeper on those, but best is so subjective based on the readers interest this is the best we can do under the traditional book publishing model.
review 2: While I appreciate the myriad of topics this book covers, none of the information was earth shattering and "made me smarter" Anyone that has read a few books about general educational topics, and/or who has taken a few college classes outside of their major probably knows mo... morest of the "new concepts" presented in this book. I would not recommend this book for anyone that is more than a "level one" reader in psychology, physics, history, etc. Instead read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson or Brian Greene's Elegant Universe.That being said, it is presented well and the author sites many academic studies that lends credibility to the material presented. I just wish they went more in depth on any of the topics as I don't think I learned anything. (and I am by no means a "smart" person) I think this was an attempt to appeal to the largest number of readers rather than to make readers smarter. less

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