{"product_id":"outsmarted-arian-hosseini-9798197992246","title":"Outsmarted: The Hidden Costs of Being the Smartest Person in the Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the traits that made you exceptional also came with costs no one warned you about?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutsmarted\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about what happens when achievement becomes identity. About \u003cb\u003ethe hidden social costs of being unusually intelligent\u003c\/b\u003e in a world that increasingly rewards different things than raw intelligence: in careers, relationships, status, belonging, and ultimately, happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a Machine Learning Tech Lead who has spent two decades inside the rooms this book describes, this is the book the tribe has been waiting for someone in the tribe to write.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will find: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Lowered Hand\u003c\/b\u003e: What being right faster than the room costs the person who has to learn to hide it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Translation Tax\u003c\/b\u003e: The daily cognitive bill smart people pay to convert their unfiltered thoughts into something the room can accept.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Cleverness Ceiling\u003c\/b\u003e: Why the colleague with worse work just got promoted past you, and what kind of work actually pays above it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Optimization Function: \u003c\/b\u003eThe scoring system you cannot stop running on the people you try to love.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Mirror in the Machine\u003c\/b\u003e: What happens when intelligence itself becomes cheaper than we ever imagined, and the skills that built an elite become available to everyone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe strange and uncomfortable fact\u003c\/b\u003e that many of the people we have looked down on for years have, by the measures that matter at the end, been happier than we have.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA portrait, not a polemic. A field guide, not a manifesto.\u003c\/i\u003e Written from inside the tribe, with the honesty the tribe rarely permits itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the smart reader who has lowered his hand a thousand times and never had the language for it. For the spouse, the parent, the colleague on the receiving end of that lowering. And for everyone living through the repricing of intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arian Hosseini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197992246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Arian Hosseini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801615020287,"sku":"9798197992246","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/outsmarted-arian-hosseini-9798197992246","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}