Today's review is for: 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
This was under the cateogry: A Book With A Really Long Title
This is the author's take on how we are deluding ourselves in several aspects of our lives. The old saying "To err is human" comes to play as he explains how every thought and action we have comes from a story we tell ourselves to explain them. Bottom line - we are easily fooled and we don't think we are.
I really liked this book. It was humorous, and I could definitely see how I delude myself in believing I am better in some ways when actually I am not. It was a great big dose of humble pie to know we are not the great thinkers we think we are - on the whole - but more just a collection of biases. It takes a lot to admit that most of the things we think we know, or remember, are tainted by our own delusions. It shows that in reality, it is better to shrug and assume you remember it differently, and calm the waters of an argument than to insist you are right.
I definitely say try this book. You will enjoy taking a better look at yourself.
Stars: 4
I just finished this last week! Haven't had time to post my thoughts about it on your wall. :) I guess I don't need to. I mostly liked it, too, although after awhile I found the format to be a bit tedious. Present a situation, describe a study, repeat. I know this book was born from a website where that format probably worked much better, but I would have liked to have had more depth on some of the topics.
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