David McRaney is a journalist and self-described psychology nerd. He has written for several publications, including "The Atlantic "and "Psychology Today." He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Praise for YOU ARE NOT SO SMART by David McRaney
"Every chapter is a welcome reminder that you are not so smart yet
you re never made to feel dumb. You Are Not So Smart is a dose of
psychology research served in tasty anecdotes that will make you
better understand both yourself and the rest of us. You ll find new
perspectives on your relationships with people you know, people you
don t, and even brands. It turns out we re much more irrational
than most of us think, so give yourself every advantage you can and
read this book."
Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit.com
You Are Not So Smart is positively one of the smartest books to
come by this year no illusion there.
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
Simply wonderful. An engaging and useful guide to how our brilliant
brains can go badly wrong.
Richard Wiseman, bestselling author of 59 Seconds and
Quirkology
McRaney s sweeping overview is like taking a Psych 101 class with a
witty professor and zero homework.
Psychology Today
You Are Not So Smart [is] the go-to blog for understanding why we
all do silly things.
Lifehacker.com
You d think from the title that it might be curmudgeonly; in fact,
You Are Not So Smart is quite big-hearted.
Jason Kottke, Kottke.org
Want to get smarter quickly? Read this book
David Eagleman neuroscientist and author of Incognito: The Secret
Lives of the
A much-needed field guide to the limits of our so-called
consciousness. McRaney presents a witty case for just how witless
we all are.
William Poundstone bestselling author of Are you Smart Enough to
Work at Googl
Fascinating After reading this book, you ll never trust your brain
again.
Alex Boese bestselling author of Elephants on Acid and Electric
Sheep
Deflating to a certain audience that wants to believe in
exceptions, You Are Not So Smart is a tonic to the noxious
sweetness of overachievement, an acknowledgment of ordinariness
that glories in the quirks of being human without forcing them into
a triumphant pyramid. That which cannot be overcome is a part as
vital to the human experience as that impulse to try even harder to
overcome nature. And if that fails, the flip side to a population
crediting itself with falsely inflated powers of observation is
that no one might notice if you, too, are not so smart.
The Onion A.V. Club
In an Idiocracy dominated by cable TV bobbleheads, government
propagandists, and corporate spinmeisters, many of us know that
mass ignorance is a huge problem. Now, thanks to David McRaney s
mind-blowing book, we can finally see the scientific roots of that
problem. Anybody still self-aware enough to wonder why society now
worships willful stupidity should read this book.
David Sirota, syndicated columnist, radio host and author of Back
to Our Future"
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