You Are Not So Smart
Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
by:
David McRaney
Summary:
The book explores various cognitive biases, fallacies, and heuristics that lead people to misconstrue reality, make irrational decisions, and maintain erroneous beliefs. It presents a series of chapters, each focusing on a different psychological concept, to illustrate how the mind works and why individuals often have a flawed understanding of themselves and the world.
Key points:
1. Cognitive Biases: The book highlights how our brain's biases can lead us to irrational decisions. These biases include confirmation bias, availability heuristic, and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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