You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney
How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
A witty tour of the mental shortcuts and illusions that quietly steer everyday life, this book explains how perception, memory, and reasoning routinely mislead us. Drawing on experiments and engaging stories, it reveals biases like confirmation bias, confabulation, the backfire effect, and groupthink, showing how they shape choices, beliefs, and relationships. With practical strategies to test assumptions, seek disconfirming evidence, and adopt better habits of thought, it offers tools to spot blind spots, make sounder decisions, and become a little less wrong over time.
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- 2013
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