Recommendations:
- This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the tricks our brains play on us. Through captivating real-life examples, Chabris and Simons explain how our intuition can deceive us in surprising ways, from missing obvious details like a gorilla in a basketball game to making faulty judgments. By shedding light on these mental illusions, the book offers practical advice on how to make better decisions and minimize the negative impact of our flawed intuition. Get ready to have your mind blown and gain a fresh perspective on clear thinking.
- If you've ever wondered why people sometimes miss the obvious or how even experts can make costly mistakes, this book is for you. Chabris and Simons delve into the fascinating world of cognitive illusions, using the famous "invisible gorilla" experiment as a starting point. Their engaging writing style, combined with thought-provoking insights, makes this book a pleasure to read. Prepare to challenge your assumptions about your own perception and gain valuable tools for improving decision-making in your daily life.

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Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot. Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they   Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes What criminals have in common with chess masters Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.

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