num_pages: 320
description: Reading this book will make you less sure of yourselfand thats a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons creators of one of psychologys most famous experiments use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds dont work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are but were actually missing a whole lot.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. Were 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 were 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 its 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. 
language: English
title: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
publisher: Harmony