This will make you smarter - John Brockman

What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?

This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to 150 of the world’s brightest and most influential minds. Their paradigm-changing answers are collected here. Brockman invokes the term ‘scientific to home in on the most reliable ways of gaining knowledge about anything – whether it be qualities of human spirit, the role of great figures in history, or the structure of DNA. Exploring philosophy, psychology, economics and other broad disciplines, This Will Make You Smarter has the potential to help humanity better understand the world and its future.