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Reading this booklet can make you less certain of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, designers of 1 of mindset’s most well-known experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive medical findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our heads don’t work just how we think they are doing. We think we see ourselves and the world as they are really, but we’re actually lacking a lot.
Chabris and Simons combine the work of other analysts with the own conclusions on attention, understanding, storage area, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. Along the way, they clarify:
• Why a business would spend billions to unveiling something that its own experts know will fail
• How a officer could run right past a brutal assault without witnessing it
• Why award-winning films are filled with editing mistakes
• What scammers have in common with chess experts
• Why measles and other youth diseases are making a return
• Why money managers could learn a great deal from weather forecasters
Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by day-to-day illusions. We write traffic regulations and build legal situations on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we realize where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid recollections are seared into our heads with perfect fidelity. As a population, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continuously enticed by the lure of quick fixes and easy self-improvement.
The Invisible Gorilla uncovers the myriad techniques our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of real human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these day-to-day illusions and whatever we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the booklet offers a kind of x-ray eyesight into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts also to think obviously for possibly the first time.
