You Are Not So Smart

233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs

Link to preorder How Minds Change: <a href="http://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome">www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome</a> Our guest in this episode is A.J. Jacobs, the the four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, Thanks A Thousand, It’s All Relative, and The Know It All.
His new book, The Puzzler, is a fun, weird, refreshingly scientific book all about the human brain's fascination with puzzles. Seriously, there’s all sorts of explorations in the book about neural pathways, behavioral routines, how we learn, what gets us into loops, and - this is true - a few attempts to solve the puzzle of our very existence. Show Notes at: <a href="https://www.youarenotsosmart.com">www.youarenotsosmart.com</a>
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You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.