Why Smart People Believe Lies

Why Smart People Believe Lies

Being smart doesn’t make us immune to self-deception. Intelligence can give us more sophisticated ways to defend the conclusions we already want to reach.

Smart people are easier to fool than they think, mentalist warns intelligence can become a liability

Being intelligent does not protect people from making terrible decisions. According to Australian mentalist, TEDx speaker and keynote expert Andy Nunn, intelligence can sometimes make people more vulnerable because smart people are often brilliant at convincing themselves they are right.  After more than 25 years studying attention, persuasion and human behaviour through mentalism, combined with more than a decade coaching leaders, Nunn says som…