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Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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Allison, Quest Hound
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I am currently reading this. It's very interesting and easy to read. I'm learning loads of new things, some of them pretty surprising. The way it's set in chapters also makes it easy to read.Is anyone reading this one?
I'm reading it too - about halfway through and really like it. It's fascinating to see how the mind plays tricks on you.
Finished this - it was interesting and yeah I too kept thinking 'not me' even as he disproved concept after concept.
I found this book to be repetitive and not as interesting as I first thought it would be. After I read the first chapter I was very intrigued and wanted to read more. However, each chapter felt like a repeat of the one before, just discussing a psychological study and stating the author's opinion on why that particular issue was not true. I scanned the book for the few issues I found most intriguing and read those chapters. The psychological studies were very interesting to read about.
Cindy wrote: "Finished this - it was interesting and yeah I too kept thinking 'not me' even as he disproved concept after concept."I think that's one reason why I scanned for those that I thought I did not do. There were many truths that he stated that I said, "yes of course that's correct." Those misconceptions that I did believe to be truths were the best ones to read to hear his argument as to why and read the studies done around them.


