You Are Now Less Dumb · How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and Allthe Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- Authors
- McRaney, David
- Publisher
- Gotham Books
- Tags
- psychology & counseling , literature & fiction , self help , essays , health; fitness & dieting , professional & technical , psychology , united states , humor & entertainment , professional science , satire , social psychology & interactions , humor , behavioral sciences , science , cognitive psychology , science & math , self-help & psychology , cognitive science
- ISBN
- 9781592408054
- Date
- 2013-07-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.40 MB
- Lang
- en
The author of the bestselling You Are Not So Smart shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, and gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their not-so-smart brains
David McRaney’s first book, You Are Not So Smart , evolved from his wildly popular blog of the same name. A mix of popular psychology and trivia, McRaney’s insights have struck a chord with thousands, and his blog--and now podcasts and videos--have become an Internet phenomenon.
Like You Are Not So Smart , You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of fifteen more ways we fool ourselves every day, including:
- The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater affect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us)
- Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don’t enjoy just to make the time or money already invested “worth it”)
- Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality)
McRaney also reveals the true price of happiness, why Benjamin Franklin was such a badass, and how to avoid falling for our own lies. This smart and highly entertaining book will be wowing readers for years to come.