I am a journalist who loves psychology, technology and the internet.
Before going to college, I tried waiting tables, working construction, selling leather coats, building and installing electrical control panels, and owning pet stores.
As a journalist, I cut my teeth covering Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and in the Pine Belt for several newspapers. Since then I’ve been a beat reporter, an editor, a photographer and everything in between.
I work in new media for a broadcast television company where I also produced a television show focusing on the music of the Deep South.
I started this blog because I missed writing and love the topic. I never expected it would become so popular or result in a book. I thank all the people who come here daily and share my stuff. This is so much fun.
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You can learn more about what this blog is about here.
Dude, whats up with all the guns?
In your promo video, in your avatar…
Kinda really creepy.
Great way to make money.
Are you “rich” yet?
Haha. Not even close.
The art of doing not to succeed? I succeeded by hardly no effort and by believing alone!
I don’t know if this is what you mean, I will try! 1. I always wanted to be a writer, so I write to the newspapers in the opinions sections and have done maybe 40 yeah…+ already…Don’t know if they do anything or help anyone etc, just do it because I like to!
Oh yeah… I also did a forward for a book, but because I am the writers friend.That book is really good though!
I won a writing contest a few times, got first place and a second place..so maybe I am a writer and I am not being delusional that maybe some day I will write, I just don’t make a lot of money and am not on the top of a best seller list.
2. I also wanted to be a photographer in a way…becasue I like photography…So I Just started taking photos and now have a photo on the front of a book and other photos in other books. I Just do it to have fun and don’t make a lot of money, I believed I could be as good as others, just don’t have the smarts for making huge bucks. But Just like doing it anyway!I could tell you other odd stories, but I will leave you with these! Now all of it did not cost a whole lot..I did fight with my mind as to if I could go places doing this…I have but not far ..Oh well It’s fun anyway!Am I samart because I did what I wrote..Not really! I got there for the effort and believing maybe I could, it’s just fun stuff and “God” helped me out! : )
The “Wizard Of Oz” said it the best you could ever say it!!
He looks formiliar…Ever been to Central Wisconsin?
I like you posts, don’t how-ever like the gun you use in the video! I see unintentional subliminal messaging that could effect a person or might not be good for kids reading or seeing those posts! That is definitely not smart!
Brains are not needed to live, it’s the will power that guides us and Gods guiding hand also!
I don’t have to explain all the other stuff, you probably know that already!
Will Power to live and believing in yourself takes over brain power when you come down to it..all the other stuff does not matter!
I’m hearing this on Coast To Coast AM right now – I kinda like this dude! Carry on!
Hey David, Ive been reading your blog for two years. Its really great, thank you for all the info that you have presented. I hope you continue what you are doing. Greetings from Saudi Arabia
Thank you. Please don’t stop here. I’m just a writer/journalist. Keep exploring.
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you want to do a book about a fourty five year old loser that RAISED FOUR CHILDREN ALONE in poverty in canada has no job no car no anything
soon to be homeless after raising four children alone with no family and no support
OH wait of course not because no one cares about LOSERS LIKE ME
great title of a book i say LOSERS LIKE ME
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Great blog David. I thought I was smart enough but now I know where I stand. Keep up the good work. Looking forward for some new posts…
Please write more.I am not so smart and need to read more smartening articles! Please!
I work in forensic psychiatry and recognise all of the concepts you speak about. Couldn’t help laughing out loud with your cool sense of humour and what I like the most is how you make them so relevant to our everyday lives.. wonderful job. Am off out to buy my copy.. enjoyed hearing you on Coast to Coast recently also. All the best
This is the kind of the book version of a magician pulling me up on stage and exposing my human nature, both for fun and brainfood :D
As a teacher of Adults, I find David’s book relavent to their cognative learning styles. thank you David for putting down on paper what makes perfact sense.
David, I heard an interview you gave on CBC Radio on Tuesday, Jan. 3 (or I heard it on Tuesday). I’m eager to have a look at your book.
You might really like the work of The Arbinger Institute. Their best-seller is Leadership and Self-Deception. Sounds like it might be right up your alley.
Best to you on the book sales!
Heather
Masterful writing and excellent breakdown of concepts that can normally be pretty confusing or too “heady” for some people to grasp. I ordered your book last night after hearing you in an interview on public radio. You articulated yourself so well, and with such a down to earth sense of humility that I had to look up your blog. I was not dissapointed. Thanks for all you do.
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I never fail to learn something whenever I finally get around to reading your blog. Love this post in particular because I put off reading it until today, when my work was finished. Thanks for telling me why I cannot get anything done.
Dear Mr. McRaney
Your site is most interesting. You say you are interested in pychology, but do u have any formal education in it or just knowledge from private study?
-anthony
That is right You are not smart coz the WOMAN IS SMARTER! Smart that I did not get to think the way you think. I am smart coz I did not have to buy your book. I am smart because I do not have take it from you to live my life. Why not be a person that has the 5 senses of which you can be very creative about. What ever people think, hear or say, or touch are all part of our sensory organs. Brain and emotions are two different things. You use your head and so you say we are not smart. Do you ever have emotions? You too then are not smart either.
Mr. Mcraney, seeing as your interests include psychology and technology, you might want to give Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows if you haven’t already. It talks about how today’s technology (Google, text messaging, etc.) are physically influencing our brains and stuff. It’s not exactly on topic with the blog, but I just thought you might find it interesting.
interesting Stuff..keep going! actually learnt about this from “The Rotarian”, jan2012 issue
I purchased your book last year and it has become my official atheist bible. I have the strong believe that ignoring the facts in the book makes people live their ilussion. To have a better understanding of your true motivation behind your actions makes me more sure about who I am and why I do what I do. Thanks for putting all these really usefull facts together in 1 book.
Eh? I think you have obviously missed a point or two to this website. He isn’t telling anyone how to live their life, and if you don’t like it, you don’t need to read it. Or maybe i’m missing a point?
By now you’ve received 1,834 e-notifications of the error on page 94 about Walter Freeman receiving the 1949 Nobel prize to honor his work in lobotomy (actually neurologist Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz shared the prize for medicine that year for his pioneering work in leucotomy – fancy-schmancy word for lobotomy). Howard Dully was lobotomized at age 12 in 1960, by Freeman; in 2007, MY LOBOTOMY was published about the experience and aftermath – excellent book, spawned by All Things Considered/NPR broadcast 11/16/2005.
YOU ARE NOT SO SMART is a constant bedside companion – read one chapter each night every night since I got the book after yourDoctorRadio interview. thanks for the insights, Randolph Proksch
What are you some autistic kid who had his parents divorced sitting in history class with a school issued Mac and nothing better to do Junior year?
Autistic kids are smarter then people give them credit for and it is not fun making fun of anyone who is different!I guess I spelled smart wrong and my speller on this computer did not catch it either!Great articles here!I guess what I feel is we are all here on this earth for the time being for what ever God sent us here for. Maybe we will never know why, but one thing is for sure is… We all have a reason, a path to follow and we will all accomplish what he set out for us!That is good enough for me!
Was that in response to me?
Dianes right…lifes gonna work out just fine. A burning bush told me so. Also i dug up some gold tablets and an angel helped me decipher them…aperently we all must sacrifice our favorite coffee mug by throwing it in the ocean the day after halloween every year. I dont know why, but God commands it, so its probably just beyond human comprehension. No I dont still have the tablets, the angel took them with him, but you can be sure it happened. God would not choose anyone but an honest man to find his message.
As long a I can be my own god, that’s fine by me… even if my mind tricks me in to being sidetracked from time tot time (though hopefully a little less after reading this blog)