My new book, You Are Now Less Dumb, comes out in paperback on August 5th.

And if you like this podcast, I'm pretty sure you will like this book.

But don't take my word for it.

Listen to this friendly robot, recite the Publisher Weekly's starred review.

Macrini's newest, a follow-up to 2012's, You are not so smart, explores the ways in which the brain cheats and edits and alters reality.

He ranges far and wide in his explication of various theories of individual and social psychology

in the process shedding light on the personal blind spots that skew reality while also allowing us to navigate it.

In a section on ego depletion, the author walks readers through a recent study that tested the relationship between feelings of being excluded in eating habits.

Turns out those in the ostracized best group, when presented with a bowl of cookies,

just kept mushing them into their sad faces.

From there he goes on to discuss Freud's theory of the ego and Henry David

the Rose's decision to willfully exclude himself from society.

That fusion of ripe rose and enlightening many lessons is what makes this

book so special. Page after page, readers will be laughing, learning, and looking at themselves

in new ways. Macrane is a fine stylist, easily balancing anecdote, analysis,

and idiocydes.

Despite a flippant and self-helpy title,

this work is seriously informative.

Thank you, robot, and thank you publishers weekly.

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