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By Cordelia Fine

The brain's strength is proven and touted each day in new reviews and learn. And but we have a tendency to take our brains without any consideration, with out suspecting that these lots of hard-working neurons will possibly not continuously be operating for us. Cordelia wonderful introduces us to a mind we'd now not are looking to meet, a mind with a brain of its personal. She illustrates the brain's tendency towards self-delusion as she explores how the brain defends and glorifies the ego by way of twisting and warping our perceptions. Our brains hire a slew of inborn mind-bugs and prejudices, from hindsight bias to unrealistic optimism, from ethical excuse-making to wishful thinking—all designed to avoid us from seeing the reality in regards to the global and the folks round us, and approximately ourselves.

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