David Mcraney's You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart is a book written by David McRaney filled with many of the underlying thoughts we think we know or know about ourselves. The main theme of this book is to showcase the truth about the obliviousness that you have about yourself, action, and how that affects the things that you do. The book title and the book itself, is not meant to make you feel unwise; it’s meant to make you think and explain how your mind works and help you better understand yourself and human nature. McRaney’s purpose is to show that everything that you think is rational is not based on logic and understanding, but what truly influences your thought procedure is established biases and the concept of conscious/unconscious.
With this book, each chapter analyzes the deep misconceptions that people think and make everyday from their own personal biases, while explaining the real truth about why you are thinking the way you think. …show more content…
However, McRaney’s structure and writing of the book is definitely different from others. McRaney talks about different topics in the book that cover different examples and studies to show how the failures of our misconceptions work and to show the truth behind it. In every chapter, McRaney ties it in with general psychology topics to help readers understand the reason why we behave the way we do. But while he does so, he talks about experiments that go along with his topic, which helps readers discover the truth about themselves and the reality of how they deceive themselves. Each misconception in the book serves a purpose of how your brain actually works and it’s written that way to showcase how human nature is. From reading the book, I felt like each chapter challenged me to apply my own personal life into account and it was fascinating to really go into depth with the way your brain works and to see how deceiving the brain works against