The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David RobsonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: A break down of Intelligence bias when you are too smart for your own good.
Sharing ample examples of intelligent people like Conan Doyle - the man who created Sherlock Holmes believing in the fairies hoax to companies with the subject matter experts and pioneers falling short when it mattered most. Implicit to all of these are biases , usually cognitive and the fact that smarter people find creative ways to justify it to themselves. Like the copy pasta influencer quote - people half as smart as you are achieving 10x more because they aren't smart enough to see why can't ."
From how organisations shut down feedback mechanisms because everyone is smart enough to do no wrong to the propagation of fake news, there are some narratives that add value to the book. Otherwise yet another self help book.
The concept that having more than 60% of your team being all star can actually be detrimental and 60% is a sweet spot using some cherry picked examples from American sports. Similarly, making learning tough makes it more sticky especially with context switching - probably why our academic schedule works around periods of 40-45 minutes with topics changing and concept of revision.
Also how near misses creep into the safe operating procedure rulebooks and capturing that info could also help prevent disastrous results when we wonder why something worked fine 5 times and went horribly wrong the 6th even though we did the same thing. The author ties up all the points with cherry picked real world examples.
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