You Are Not So Smart

By David McRaney,

Book cover of 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

Book description

How many of your Facebook friends do you think you know? Would you help a stranger in need? Do you know why you're so in love with your new smartphone? The truth is: you're probably wrong. You are not so smart.

In this international bestseller, award-winning journalist David McRaney examines…

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Why read it?

1 author picked You Are Not So Smart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In this book, David Macauley presents flaw after flaw of our reasoning and the many ways we trip ourselves up, illustrated with entertaining stories, fascinating research, and a sense of humor.

Many of my sketches tackle the cognitive biases (so many identified by Daniel Kahneman), logical fallacies, and heuristics that help us make sense of the world. I listened to the audiobook and immediately bought the paperback to read through it again.

David Macauley's book is popular science and smart thinking at its most entertaining and applicable. Great fun.

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