You are not so smart
why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways you're deluding yourself
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Publication
2011 - Gotham Books/Penguin Group, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
75,500 words, Guess
Page Count
302 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveyouarenotsosmart00mcra_450
- Internet Archiveyouarenotsosmart00davi
- Internet Archiveyouarenotsosmart0000mcra
- Internet Archiveyouarenotsosmart0000mcra_w0b5
- Internet Archiveyouarenotsosmart00mcra_766
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- ISBN-101592406599
- ISBN-139781592406593
- Library of Congress Control Number2012406122
- OCLC Control Number706017775
- Better World Books9781592406593
- Open LibraryOL25378534M
Classifications
- LCCBF441 .M427 2011
Description
An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name. Whether you’re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us—but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human. Growing out of David McRaney’s popular blog, You Are Not So Smart reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them. But often these stories aren’t true. Each short chapter—covering topics such as Learned Helplessness, Selling Out, and the Illusion of Transparency—is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out. Bringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.
Description
McRaney reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them. But sometimes those stories aren't true.
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