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 illumination of the ridiculous beliefs which make us feel wise.

You think you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it is really, but journalist David McRaney is here now to tell you that you’re as deluded as ordinary people. But that’s Okay- delusions maintain us sane. YOU AREN’T So Smart is normally a special event of self-delusion. It’s such as a mindset class, with all the current boring parts applied for, and with no homework.

Based on the popular blog of the same name, YOU AREN’T So Smart on the subject of You Are Not So Savvy: Why You Have WAY TOO MANY Friends on Facebook, Why Your Storage Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 DIFFERENT WAYS You’re Deluding Yourself collects more than 46 from the lies we inform ourselves everyday, including:

* Dunbar’s Quantity – Humans evolved to live in rings of approximately 150 individuals, the brain cannot handle a lot more than that quantity. When you have more than 150 Facebook close friends, these are surely not absolutely all real friends.

* Hindsight bias – Whenever we learn something fresh, we reassure ourselves that we knew everything along.

* Confirmation bias – Our brains resist fresh ideas, instead paying attention only to results that reinforce our preconceived notions.

* Brand commitment – We grab the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that people made a smart choice the final time we bought it.