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“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
“Want to get smarter quickly? Read this book”
-David Eagleman — neuroscientist and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“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 Google
“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: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now
You Are Not So Smart is a book about all the wonderful ways you delude yourself every day.
The book isn’t just a hard copy of the blog. There are plenty of new topics and lots of exclusive-to-the-book content.
You could use a healthy dose of humility, and inside this book you’ll find new entries on topics like priming, expectation, confabulation, apophenia, normalcy bias, the fundamental attribution error, and many more along with expanded chapters on topics from the blog.
With each new subject you will start to see how unaware of how unaware you are. You will soon realize you are not so smart, and thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics and common fallacies, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality. That’s ok though. We’re all in this together, and these are our shared mental stumbling blocks.
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I really loved your book. I have learned not to take myself so seriously (after all no one else does) Thanks for the insight. I was disturbed however reading about innocent animals being shocked in experiments just to prove that we are not so smart.
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Hello, David! I like your blog. I’ve got a question, you have already said that not all topics on the blog have been included in the book, but still some of the old topics (I didn’t find them on the content list of the book) were removed from the blog (like the Spotlight Effect, Kissing, The Dunning-Kruger Effect, I guess…), so, they are unavailable at all anymore?:-(
Thank you, Inna.
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Dear David,
I haven’t read your book yet, but my contribution would be: We are all stupified by what we know and believe because all knowledge and beliefs are constructs of the mind, whereas the quiet mind; the meditative mind, has the ability to experience different dimensions. If we overvalue knowledge then we miss the oportunity to experience spontanious forms of knowing. My philosophical theory is: There is a universal consciousness that is primary, but conscious thinking is secondary and mechanistic. Have given lectures at several Australian Universities, much interest, but concepts not understood. Stephen Hawkins was right. “Philosophers are living in the past by being busy interpreting what others have said years ago”. For example, Socrates ” I know that I know nothing”. How many people really understand what he meant?
By the way, I’m 84 and looking forward to becoming a recluse.
Best wishes,
Dennis
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saw the video and thought , “wow this is ME he is talking about ! Has he been stalking me?”
It’s like you know me better than my friends! I think you can really help me and others to live a better life.
Please translate this book in Greek…. My english is not that good to fully understand it.
Thanks
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Will it be translated to spanish?
Yes.
Heya i’m for the first time here. I found this board and I to find It really useful & it helped me out a lot. I am hoping to give one thing again and help others like you helped me.
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Is there any way I can buy an ebook version in the UK? I can’t buy it via iTunes (not available in UK store) and Amazon doesn’t have Kindle versions in the UK or US store.
It will be available in the UK end of this year or early 2013.
Wow I am amazed by your work. It’s an honor to be following your blog right now. What motivated you to start this blog? And did you intend to be published at the onset of this idea or was it just a hobby?
I never expected it to become this popular. It was just a hobby, and a way to use my psychology degree in ways other than just babbling on at parties and road trips. Thanks!
Hi David,
Is there any plan to make the book available on international iTunes Bookstores. (Actuallly it’s the french one I’m interested in).
Maybe I’m not so smart, but apparently, you can only buy it in the US iBookstore so far.
At least I wasn’t able to find it where I can easily buy it…
Thanks,
Pierre
By the end of this year the book should be available in about 10 more languages. Slowly, it will reach everybody.
The book will be translated to portuguese ?