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

David McRaney

2011 • 320 pages

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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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Jer

Basically just a bunch of blog posts turned into a blog - nothing original (other than the eponymous “You Are Not So Smart” tag lines sprinkled throughout... which add nothing). Go read Kahneman, Ariely, or any other more in-depth book if you want anything deeper than a blog post's perspective on behavioral science or cognitive biases. But if you like snarky comments and have no idea what behavioral economics is... go for it.

Great book!

Great read (listen)! Heck, I'm sure I'll do it again! I found it absolutely fascinating, but then I find stuff about how about brains work (or don't work) intriguing.

April 24, 2014