A review by hoguelikewoah
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 by David McRaney

funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.5

YANSS - Was a lot of fun to read.  It's effectively a primer on every known Cognitive Distortion (Bypassing, Overgeneralization, Blank and White Thinking, Magical Thinking, etc) along with historical societal impacts of all sizes where these every day thoughts have been fully on display.  That's part of the rub - normalizing how common it is for our brains to take shortcuts in ways that reinforce our self-protective negativity bias, and how important it is to be mindful of when these thought distortions occur, so that we don't use them to self-sabotage, damage relationships, outcomes our generally perpetuate discomfort.  It's a breeze to read and I look forward to reading David McRaney's next book about the science of persuasion, "How Minds Change."