Reddit reviews This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)

They are vague because you are just reading the titles. They are all 2-3 page essays, and are collected annually and published as a book. Recommended reading, especially last year's question: What is a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit

I'm quite enjoying it! And, full disclosure, I'm a bit of an ADD type... I don't stay focused on one thing for too long. I like to get to the point of something in as few steps as possible. The book really plays in to that! It's a collection of about 150 1-4 page little essays from prominent thinkers. They all were simply asked "What is your favorite deep, beautiful, elegant theory?"

It comes from edge.org.

Edge puts out a new one every year (at least I think that's the frequency...).

Last year's was a great read as well! Same format as this year's, just a different question.

Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iSZ3BUru59A&noredirect=1

and "This will make you smarter"

A book I really want to read. Thanks for being awesome.

I've read that book several times and it's excellent, much of my brain is running principles defined there. Buy it twice, one for yourself and one for the cousin as well. It's in my top 15 favorite books.

If you enjoy it and are sad once you read it all and there isn't any more, get this one which is equally mind blowing: https://www.amazon.com/This-Will-Make-You-Smarter/dp/0062109391

Other ideas for books everyone in the world needs to read:

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclocking/dp/0596101538/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FAJ3BBQKSHWY3XD2NMFV

https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Fear-Survival-Signals-Violence/dp/0440226198/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511352740&sr=1-1&keywords=Gift+of+fear+by+Gavin+Debecker.