Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways youre deluding yourself. In the book, levitan takes us through 12 repeating patterns that politicians fall into when they mistake, misrepresent, and mangle science. This is a book summary of you are not so smart by david mcraney. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways youre. Oct 31, 2011 the third person effect, an excerpt from the new book you are not so smart. Its like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework. Dunbars number humans evolved to live in bands of roughly 150 individuals, the brain cannot handle more than that number.
Book smart people can list facts and information but they dont necessarily have a deeper understanding of the subject. This is an attempt at humor turned into an excuse to bash teachers by those to dumb to recognize it. You are not so smart is the goto blog for understanding why we all do silly things. I then bought that book, and then his first book, you are not so smart from 2011 both published by gotham books, and paused reading the second to read the first first. You are not so smart by david mcraney overdrive rakuten. Why your memory is mostly fiction, why you have too many friends on facebook and 46 other ways youre deluding yourself by mcraney, david isbn. Go deeper into understanding just how deluded you really are and learn how. You are not so smart is a celebration of selfdelusion.
David mcraney is a journalist, author and podcaster. Oct 14, 20 as i recall my first exposure to david mcraney was an excerpt from his latest book, you are now less dumb, on salon a couple months ago i quoted from it, here. Jan 05, 2014 we use this as a protective mechanism because we would like to believe that this same fate would not befall us. Praise for you are not so smart every chapter is a welcome reminder that you are not so smart yet youre never made to feel dumb. Join our community just now to flow with the file you are not so smart and make our shared file collection even more complete and exciting. You can learn how to be book smart in school but even someone with a harvard degree can still lack common sense. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
Chapter summary of the book you are not so smart by david mcraney top answer introduction in his book you are not so smart, david mcraney tries to show that there exists a reason why things happen as. You are not so smart book by david mcraney full audiobook. Introduction from you are not so smart by david mcraney. We use this as a protective mechanism because we would like to believe that this same fate would not befall us. Solved chapter summary of the book you are not so smart. I am at an age where i cannot help but strike up conversations with. Our guest in this episode of the you are not so smart podcast is dave levitan, a science journalist with a new book titled. The third person effect, an excerpt from the new book you are not so smart. So smart people are better at arguing their own views but theyre not necessarily better at understanding where others are coming from. You are not so smart 2011 explores the many different ways we have of deluding ourselves. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, an d 46 other ways youre deluding yourself mcraney, david on. You are not so smart you are not so smart all you can.
If you dont have them yet, then this book will show you why its all your fault. We may get so many information but we do not pay attention we are just looking for confirmation. We want to be right about how we see the world, so we seek out information that confirms our beliefs and avoid contradictory evidence and opinion. This is the launch trailer for the new book, you are not so smart.
This is when mcraney invokes the title of the book, you are not so smart. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction and 46 other ways you are deluding yourself. Introduction in his book you are not so smart, david mcraney tries to show that there exists a reason why things happen as. You are not so smart is a celebration of self delusion that explores topics related to cognitive biases, heuristics, and logical fallacies. Perkins found that iq was by far the biggest predictor of how well people argued, but it predicted only the number of myside. Reading psychology books is the supreme lifehack distilled knowledge that often took years to assemble can be consumed in just a few hours. Ever wonder why people tend to do the dumb things they do. So, my fellow book smart people, bear in mind that haters gonna hate and graters gonna grate. So how can you tell if someone is really intelligent or just book smart.
Do you know why youre so in love with your new smartphone. You are not so smart summarized part 1 house of sage. Every chapter is a welcome reminder that you are not so smartyet youre never made to feel dumb. Youre going to have to rewrite your own script to start exercising more and eating better food. You are not so smart ebook by david mcraney rakuten kobo david mcraney explores the ways in which we mislead ourselves every day, and suggests that we are not as clever as we like to think. Stream 062 naive realism lee ross by you are not so smart from desktop or your mobile device. Whether youre deciding which smart phone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic, but heres the truth. This is the book trailer for you are not so smart a selfhelp book that combines popular science and psychology with witty humor. Based on the popular blog of the same name, you are not so smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday, including.
In each episode, we explore what weve learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decisionmaking. With no staff, the support of patrons allows me, david mcraney, to devote long hours to producing new content. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways youre deluding yourse. Nov 01, 2011 you are not so smart is positively one of the smartest books to come by this year no illusion there. A bell clangs when you pull open the single front door, and then that wonderful backdraft of a million inked letters on thousands of aging paper pages rushes past you. Review of david mcraneys you are not so smart views. It turns out were much more irrational than most of us think, so give yourself every advantage you can and read this book. Fallacies taken from you are not so smart, by david mcraney. You hold in your hands a compendium of information about selfdelusion and the wonderful. Not all of the blog made it into the book, and the book has far more new material thats not on the blog so read them both.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. I am at an age where i cannot help but strike up conversations with perfect strangers while waiting in line. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. One, you tend to believe that you arrived at your political opinions after careful, rational analysis through unmediated. You are not so smart quotes showing of 201 you are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are not so smart is a dose of psychology research served in tasty anecdotes that will make you better understand both yourself and the rest of us. So i took to goodreads and scoured the psychology tag for books that might interest me. His blog exploring how we delude ourselves, laid the groundwork for his first book, you are not so smart, which became an international bestseller and was translated into fourteen languages. Selfdescribed psychology nerd david mcraney is a journalist and new media worker, and twicerecipient of the william randolph hearst award. You are not so smart book trailer procrastination youtube. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is. Jun 27, 2018 you are not so smart will show you the flaws and give you the tools to cope with them. You are not so smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. You are not so smart is positively one of the smartest books to come by this year no illusion there.
You are not so smart, live in new york, at the bell house, in brooklyn david mcraney and three experts and a bunch of yanss fans got together for a deep dive into how we turn perception into reality, how that reality can differ from brain to brain, and what happens when we dangerously disagree on the truth. Sep 08, 2011 trailer for the new book, you are not so smart. The wason selection task is an example of how lousy you are at logic, but you are also filled with beliefs that. Oct 01, 2011 an entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. If you have more than 150 facebook friends, they are surely not all real friends. This is the sort of thing you will find throughout this book, with explanations and musings to boot. Below, i have inserted quotes from the book and whatever fun graphic i could find that further illustrates the chapters point. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction.
It is one of the many benefits of being an outgoing, middleaged man. Its a lot of material, its going to mess with your head. According to lee ross, coauthor of the new book, the wisest one in the room, naive realism has three tenets. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to the effects in your life, and you make them up without realizing it when you dont know the answers. This same rational is discussed in the selfserving bias chapter, in which mcraney describes how we associate positive outcomes with our own affirmative. Here are 10 ways to tell you are more book smart than common sense smart. You are not so smart is a dose of psychology research served in tasty anecdotes that will make you better understand both yourself and the rest. Every chapter is a welcome reminder that you are not so smart yet youre never made to feel dumb.
The you are not so smart podcast live in new york david mcraney, four experts, and a bunch of yanss fans got together for a deep dive into how we turn perception into reality, how that realit. Jellybooks offers readers free advance reading copies and complimentary ebooks in exchange for their reading data. Why good people are divided by politics and religion. Instead, you are unaware of the constant nudging you receive from. Chapter summary of the book you are not so smart by david mcraney. Review of david mcraneys you are not so smart views from.
David mcraney interviews scientists about their research into how the mind works, and then he eats a cookie. You are always looking back at the person you used to be, always reconstructing the story of your life to better match the. Introduction from you are not so smart by david mcraney you the misconception. An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. I eventually ran into david mcraneys you are not so smart, which has a website. I recommend subscribing to the blog with an rss feed and meanwhile reading its older posts every week or so. Why you have too many friends on facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, an d 46 other ways youre deluding yourself. In short, you keep the lights on, buy the coffee, and make the show possible. You are as deluded as the rest of us, but thats ok, it keeps you sane. Sep 10, 2016 so i took to goodreads and scoured the psychology tag for books that might interest me. Two potted plants live near a yellow rocking chair on the tiny front porch sitting on some weathered green astroturf.
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