He created the podcast You Are Not So Smart based on his 2009 internationally bestselling book of the same name and its followup, You Are Now Less Dumb. 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.īringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior. David McRaney is a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture. 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. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us-but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human. But here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that youre as deluded as the. 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. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways Youre Deluding Yourself - Ebook written by David McRaney. An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name. You Are Not So Smart is a dose of psychology research served in tasty anecdotes that will make you better understand both yourself and the rest of us.

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