You Are Not So Smart — How Self-Deception Shapes What We Believe
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney — a systems-level examination of how perception, power, and incentives shape modern life.
Rather than assuming we are rational actors with transparent access to our own minds, this book draws on decades of psychological research to show how beliefs, decisions, and memories are often shaped by subconscious processes. Cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and social pressures influence our behavior long before conscious reasoning enters…
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