David McRaney
 An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. ,Whether youâ€™re deciding which smart phone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic, but hereâ€™s the truth: You are not so smart. Youâ€™re just as deluded as the rest of us--but thatâ€™s okay, because being deluded is part of being human. ,Growing out of David McRaneyâ€™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 arenâ€™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.
Nonfiction,Psychology,Science,Self Help,Sociology,Audiobook,Philosophy,Self Help,Personal Development,Humor,Business
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