Stop what you’re doing, and go grab this book. After re-reading Gilovich’s other book How We Know What Isn’t So, I went to see if he had any others, and I came across this one that he co-authored. Like his other book, Gilovich brings a ton of research along with Ross, but the premise discusses what it means to be “wise”. The authors explain that being wise isn’t just intelligence alone, but it’s understanding our own biases and psychological thinking errors along with how social situations affect our decision-making.

There’s so much in this book that I can’t do it justice in a review. The first half breaks down a ton of thinking errors and how social situations affect how we think and behave. Then, the second half gets into real-world scenarios and has a great chapter on why negotiations between two rival people or groups are so difficult to resolve.

I loved this book and highly recommend it.