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You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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I did something this week that I’m sure many peop…

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The next episode of the podcast is the 30th episode. Oh my goodness. I cannot believe it 30 episodes. That's like 25 hours or so of talking about self-illusion, interviewing experts. And I want you to know that I wrote a book about all of this,

0:14.7

and then I wrote another book.

0:16.1

And the other book is coming out in paperback on August 5th.

0:19.8

It's available everywhere books are sold,

0:21.3

and you can pre-order it right now.

0:23.3

That is unless you're in the future and that means that you can just regular order it.

0:28.0

And if you want to hear excerpts from the book, I've done a couple of episodes that did excerpts. You can go back to 23, 18, and 15 and

0:36.1

listen to me, read directly from the book and try to make it fun and interesting. And I'm going to read

0:42.1

another excerpt right now, and if you don't want to hear this you just want to get right into the show

0:46.3

Just skip ahead 12 seconds. So here we go an excerpt from you are now less dumb.

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My friend Devon Laird was brushing his teeth one morning

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when out of the corner of his eye, he noticed his living room ceiling give birth

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to a large adult naked man.

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August 5th, paperback, pre-order now, available everywhere.

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Own with a show.

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Me. B. Me.

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