ISBN: 9780143134992
Editorial: Penguin
Año de edición: 2020
N° Paginas: 384
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: "We need books like this one." --Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James, and Ryan Holiday.And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize yourselves...Stupidity is all around us, from the coworker who won't stop hitting "reply all" to the former high school classmate posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world's leading psychologists and thinkers--including a Nobel Prize winner and bestselling authors--will show you...why smart people sometimes believe in utter nonsense;how our lazy brains cause us to make the wrong decisions;why trying to debate fools is a trap;how media manipulation and Internet overstimulation make us dumber;why the stupidest people don't think they're stupid.The wisdom and wit of these experts are a balm for our aggrieved souls and a beacon of hope in a world of morons. Críticas “Remarkably comprehensive and accessible . . . The book has an easygoing, colloquial feel to it. . . . An illuminating look at a subject that is more complex than it might appear to be.” ―Booklist“Are people getting dumber, or does it just look that way? . . . A smart collection.” ―Kirkus Reviews“A comprehensive and witty inquiry into human folly in its myriad forms . . . [with a] wealth of insights . . . Urgent and transformative, this compendium will leave readers equally amused, appalled, and enlightened.” ―Publishers Weekly“A blunt and sometimes hilarious examination of human error.” ―Business Day “Fascinating . . . From morons to idots to *ssholes―they’re all here.” ―News24 Biografía del autor Jean-Francois Marmion (editor) is a psychologist, an associate editor of the French journal Sciences Humaines (Social Sciences), and a former editor-in-chief of the French magazine Le Cercle Psy (Psychological Circle). He lives in France, where The Psychology of Stupidity was a #1 bestseller. Extracto. © Reimpreso con autorización. Reservados todos los derechos. On Stupidity: A WarningAbandon all hope, ye who enter here"Good sense is the most equitably distributed thing in the world," wrote Descartes. And what about stupidity?Whether it oozes or drips, trickles or gushes, it's everywhere. Without borders and without limits. Sometimes it emerges as a gentle, almost bearable lapping; other times as a nauseating, stagnant swamp. Still other times, it's an earthquake, a storm, or a tidal wave that engulfs everything in its path, smashing, trampling, befouling. No matter what form it takes, stupidity splatters us all. Rumor has it that we ourselves are the source of it. I am no exception. The Unbearable Heaviness of BeingEveryone sees bullshit, listens to it, and reads it, every single day. At the same time, each of us is guilty of generating it, thinking it, mulling it, and speaking it aloud. We are all morons from time to time, spouting nonsense as we go about our lives, without any real consequences. The crucial thing is to be aware of it and to feel sorry about it; because to err is human, and admitting your faults is halfway to having them forgiven. There will always be those who take us for fools, but we recognize our own folly far too rarely. Apart from the perpetual purr of idiocy that surrounds us, day in, day out, there's also, sadly, the roar of the masters of stupidity, kings of stupidity-assholes with a capital A. Those assholes, whether you encounter them at work or at home, do not strike you as anecdotal. They hound you and harass you with their obstinacy in crass wrongheadedness, their unjustified arrogance. They prosper, they sign on the dotted line, and they would happily cross out all of your opinions, emotio
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Marmion, Jean-Francois
- Editorial: Penguin
- N° Paginas: 384
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
