where X was quite clearly false to anyone of average intelligence. Facebook is a lab specimen for all the psychology issues he discusses in this book, and in its prequel book You Are Not So Smart. If we want to grow smarter, we must examine our own beliefs, as some of them are very wrong!
I listened to the audiobook version of You Are Now Less Dumb: How To Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself. Now to figure out how to use this information for evil.
It was disappointing. This smart and highly entertaining book will be wowing readers for years to come.To browse Academia. Want to Read saving…. It's called the Backfire Effect and we all do it to some degree. Enlarge cover. He has written for several publications, including The Atlantic and Psychology Today. It was disappointing. At times you may feel bad or good and think you know why, but sometimes the reason you come up with is not the right one. Other editions. He has written for several publications, including The Atlantic and Psychology Today. Hence, most of the time, we do not know what drives us.Even if you are the most grounded and logical person on Earth, from time to time, We perceive the world individually, based on our previous experiences and our knowledge. Hence, most of the time, we do not know what drives us. Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality) The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater effect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us) Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we dont enjoy just to make the time or money already invested "worth it") McRaney also reveals the true price of happiness, and how to avoid falling for our own lies.McRaney is a journalist and self-described psychology nerd. So subject matter was not as new or illuminating for me and perhaps other readers of science, psychology, and the overall human conditions. There’s nothing like picking up a debut novel and feeling like you’ve found your new favorite author. And it's for your own good, like when you find out that you're living in the Matrix, or that you are actually Tyler Durden. Then combine those people into a group and they create a culture and that culture becomes it's own feedback loop further reinforcing a confirmation bias. Some good information. Chances are, you’re emphatically shaking your head “no” and reassuring yourself that you do none of the above dumb things in your daily life. Occasionally condescending and kind of wrong-headed, like in denying the validity of identity. Even if you accept the validity of the points he makes against it, you can make a strong case for the functionality of identity.
People prefer structure to randomness and uncertainty, so we find meanings and patterns everywhere, preferably in narrative (storytelling) format. In my new book, You Are Now Less Dumb (check out the book trailer here), I add 15 new chapters to the instruction manual for being a person that you should have received when they issued your copy of the human brain. We are “the central character in the story of [our] life, the unreliable narrator in the epic tale of [our] past, present, and future”.
As a result, different people live different realities.You have to become aware of this fact if you want to make your brain Many things affect our attitude towards others, like the characteristics that are the most dominant when we first meet them, or their physical appearance.All of us try not to judge “a book by its cover,” but we do it, consistently.This is grounded in biology, especially when it comes to mates. YOU ARE NOW LESS DUMB Amazon - IB – B&N – BAM – Powell’s – iTunes – Audible – Google Go deeper into understanding just how deluded you really are and learn how you can use that knowledge to be more humble, better connected, and less dumb in the sequel to the internationally bestselling You Are Not So Smart. It's not a terrible book if you're looking for details from interesting studies in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, but I would recommend you draw your own conclusions rather than accepting the author's at face value.At his blog You Are Not So Smart—and in the book of the same title—David focuses on why humans are so "unaware of how unaware we are."