Download 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 AudioBook Free
An entertaining lighting of the ridiculous beliefs which make us feel wise. You think you are a rational, rational being who sees the globe as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to let you know you are as deluded as ordinary people. But that's Alright - delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a party of self-delusion. It's just like a psychology class, with all the boring parts applied for, and with no homework.Predicated on the favorite blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart gathers more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves each day, including:
- Dunbar's Quantity - Humans changed to reside in bands of about 150 individuals, the brain cannot take care of more than that amount. When you have more than 150 Facebook friends, they are surely not absolutely all real friends.
- Hindsight bias - When we learn something new, we reassure ourselves that we knew it all along.
- Verification bias - Our brains withstand new ideas, instead attending to only to results that reinforce our preconceived notions.
- Brand loyalty - We grab the same brand not because we trust its quality but because you want to reassure ourselves that we made a good choice the last time we got it.
