David McRaney
Blogger, You Are Not So Smart at Freelance
Host at You Are Not So Smart Podcast
How Minds Change: https://t.co/uH2s8PG627 | YANSS: https://t.co/ZtYun0GPjn | Exploring Genius: https://t.co/qnkmkQmd5y | Speaking: https://t.co/YHGpsVTDR4
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3 weeks ago |
youarenotsosmart.com | David McRaney
In this episode, therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank tells us all about her new book, Align Your Mind, an all-access pass to understanding, befriending, and leading the multiple voices within yourself. RSS – Simplecast – Amazon Music– AudibleOFFICIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOKMeet your inner critic, your inner teen, and your inner shadow in this engaging guide to taming anxiety, healing trauma, and overcoming self-doubt with Parts WorkWhat is “Parts Work”?
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1 month ago |
youarenotsosmart.com | David McRaney
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, “changed the way we think about the way we think.” Before their landmark research went viral (in the way things went viral in the 1970s), the prevailing wisdom was that human beings were, for the most part, rational optimizers always making the kinds of judgments and decisions that best maximized the potential of the outcomes under their control. This was especially true in economics at the time.
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1 month ago |
youarenotsosmart.com | David McRaney
In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also sit down with psychologist and magician Matt Tompkins. Matt is the author of The Spectacle of Illusion, a book about the long history of the manipulation of our own magical thinking and how studying deception, and especially self-deception, can help us better understand perception, memory, belief, and more.
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2 months ago |
youarenotsosmart.com | David McRaney
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance (and our susceptibility) to both true news we wish was fake and fake news we wish was true.
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2 months ago |
youarenotsosmart.com | David McRaney
This episode’s guest is Mónica Guzmán, the author of I Never Thought of It That Way – a book with very practical advice on how to have productive conversations in a polarized political environment via authentic curiosity about where people’s opinions, attitudes, and values come from. In short, it’s about how to reduce polarization and learn from those with whom we disagree by establishing the sort of dynamic in which they will eagerly learn from us as well.
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