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  • The Wisest One in the Room

  • How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights
  • Written by: Thomas Gilovich, Lee Ross
  • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Wisest One in the Room

Written by: Thomas Gilovich, Lee Ross
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
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Publisher's Summary

Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you "wise" - wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life.

When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues - someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on an ongoing conflict.

In The Wisest One in the Room, renowned social psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross ask, Why? What do these people know? What are the foundations of their wisdom? And, as professors and researchers who specialize in the study of human behavior, they wonder: What general principles of human psychology are they drawing on to reach these conclusions? They begin by noting that wisdom, unlike intelligence, demands some insight into people - their hopes, fears, passions, and drives. It's true for the executive running a Fortune 500 company, the candidate seeking public office, the artist trying to create work that will speak to the ages, or the single parent trying to get a child through the tumultuous adolescent years. To be wise, they maintain, one must be psych-wise.

©2015 Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross (P)2015 Recorded Books

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Mediocre

While there were some valuable insights given in this book I felt as though many of them could have been given in half the time or length. It is possible that the narrator, whom I did not really enjoy, made it difficult to appreciate the full context of the book. The narrator speaks as if every sentence is a remarkable discovery which over time becomes hard to listen to (I found it difficult to remain engaged and often the book faded into the background).

Overall I would say the book is OK but would not recommend as an audiobook to anyone. Perhaps the hard copy would have been more enjoyable. By the end I was ready for it to just be over.

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