Brain Fart: Discover Your Flawed Logic, Failures in Common Sense and Intuition, and Irrational Behavior - How to Think Less Stupid

Use this book as a field guide to think better, understand your feelings better, and tame your stupid brain. Your first instincts and gut feelings are usually flat out wrong. Brain Fart is a book that will get you to think about how you think. •How advertisers are so effective at emptying our wallets. Think with clarity and you’ll perform at peak levels and stop making sub-optimal decisions. We do this every day without realizing it, and it can have severe consequences on our lives. Discover your brain&rs

Great read! Well-written and destined to be read again. Does what my teachers in school could never do - make science, studies, and psychology interesting to me.Who doesn't want to learn more about how they function in their lives and why they do stupid things? I came at this book from the perspective of learning about myself and I found I learned a ton about human nature and neuropsychology. I definitely did not expect that, or to enjoy a book that essentially talks about the brain.Easy reading . "I love me some popular psychology books" according to PJ. I love me some popular psychology books. There's a group of scientists somewhere conducting experiments that affect how we should act and what we should do, but they're not often publicized as much as they should be.And learning about superstitions and magical thinking was the cherry on top. Wealth of information here about how we want to maintain the illusion of control. I couldn't help but think how very human that all seemed. Anyway dense, great impulse buy.. More Like Brain SMART! I'm not a psychologist but I almost feel like I could be Okay that's a stretch but I do feel like I learned more about the brain than all of my college psych courses. I was a little skeptical about this book because it seems like pseudo science disguised as real science, but I was pleasantly proven wrong.Thinking wrong, thinking too confidently, or thinking against our own interests: there are brain-related causes for all of these things which were fascinating to discover.Brain Fart i