Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking - Tapa dura

A devastating and persuasive refutation of all those who believe intellectual ability is fixed at birth. Few Americans have done as much to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human. (Malcolm Gladwell)

Mindware should offer us all an opportunity to understand and react more intelligently to the confusing world around us. (Leonard Mlodinow The New York Times Book Review)

Friendly and practical and aimed squarely at the lay reader (Emma Smith The Sunday Times)

The bad news is that our intuitive ways of thinking about the world are wrong. The good news is that it isn't hard to set them right. Nobody knows more about these things than the eminent psychologist Richard E. Nisbett, who has dedicated his life to understanding the shortcomings of the human mind and to finding ways to fix them. This book should be required reading at every university. (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness)

Compelling . . . Nisbett encourages us to turn these tools inward and test the legitimacy of our own easily swayed opinions and beliefs (Nick Romeo The Boston Globe)