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<p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise.</b></span></font></p><p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Whether you’re deciding which smart phone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic, but here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us–but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human.</b></span></font></p><p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>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.</b></span></font></p><p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Bringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.</b></span></font></p>