You Are Not So Smart

💡Growing out of David McRaney’s popular blog, You Are Not So Smart reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them, but often these stories aren’t true. Each short chapter--covering topics such as Learned Helplessness, Selling Out, and the Illusion of Transparency--is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out. Bringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.

The book is a light fun read. Many of the concepts are covered in great depth by Daniel Kahneman’s and Dan Ariel’s leaves work in behavioral economics. David creates a fun book that doesn’t get too academic.