Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events.

Your preference in politicians, the amount you tip your waiter—all judgments and perceptions reflect the workings of our mind on two levels: the conscious, of which we are aware, and the unconscious, which is hidden from us. The latter has long been the subject of speculation, but over the past two decades researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the hidden, or subliminal, workings of the mind. The result of this explosion of research is a new science of the unconscious and a sea change in our understanding of how the subliminal mind affects the way we live.

Employing his trademark wit and lucid, accessible explanations of the most obscure scientific subjects, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a tour of this research, unraveling the complexities of the subliminal self and increasing our understanding of how the human mind works and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses, and coworkers. In the process he changes our view of ourselves and the world around us.

列纳德·蒙洛迪诺（Leonard Mlodinow），27岁时获得了伯克利理论物理博士学位，毕业后在加州理工学院（就是《生活大爆炸》里那群呆子所在的地方）做研究。

31岁时，中了好莱坞的毒，裸辞后带着自己写的一个剧本和6000美金只身来到洛杉机。6个月后，终于将剧本卖了出去，身上只剩110美元。接下来的几年，为许多电视剧写过剧本，包括Hunter、Macgyver、 Star Trek（星际迷航）、Night Court……还有一些根本不想提的，我的潜意识已经让我把它们都忘了！

2005年，回到加州理工继续教书。这是最令我他骄傲的一段时光：与老友霍金一同工作，合著了《时间简史》（普及版）。与霍金一起工作是无比令人鼓舞的，不是因为他的名气，而是由于他的勇气和毅力。虽然与霍金的交流缓慢而费力，但我们乐此不疲，在2010年我们再次合著了畅销书《大设计》。