Brains Behaving Badly
You are not the boss of your brain. You are its public-relations department.
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Meet the organ that invented fire, taxes and denial
Brains Behaving Badly is a darkly funny field guide to the machinery behind human certainty, anxiety, addiction and self-deception. Emotion runs the meeting; reason arrives later to write the minutes.
From cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias to the cult of certainty, the book treats the mind with compassion but not excessive respect. You will not emerge with a perfected brain. You may finally understand why it keeps behaving like this.
Inside the book
- Cognitive dissonance and post-hoc reasoning
- Confirmation bias and the comfort of certainty
- Anxiety, addiction and ancient survival systems
- Why understanding is more useful than self-blame
For readers who enjoy
- Psychology without motivational slogans
- Neuroscience with jokes and humane scepticism
- Readers who recognise their own rationalisations
You are not the boss of your brain. You are its public-relations department.
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Questions readers ask
Is this a self-help book?
No. It explains why brains misbehave without promising a quick fix or perfect mindset.
What subjects does it cover?
The book explores bias, anxiety, addiction, certainty, emotion and the stories reason tells afterwards.
Is an audiobook available?
Yes. The full audio edition is available on ElevenReader.