Larry Gennari and Doug Banks of the Boston Business Journal talk with Tess Wilkerson-Ryan about her recent book, Fool Proof.
Suckers, dupes, marks, chumps, pawns, losers—we have a whole thesaurus for victims of exploitation! The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior. Fool Proof tracks the implications of the sucker construct from personal decision-making to cultural conflict and offers an unexpected and empowering path forward.