“A long day of dealing with bullshit often leads to an evening of no-decision television ...” — David McRaney Bullshit Copy Share Image
“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.” — David McRaney Helplessness Copy Share Image
“narrative bias—a bias in that when given the option, you prefer to give and receive information in narrative format.” — David McRaney Bias Copy Share Image
“The real trouble begins when confirmation bias distorts your active pursuit of facts.” — David McRaney Bias Copy Share Image
“You are biased to overestimate the emotional impact of future events.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“All brains are bards, all selves audiences to the tales of who they are.” — David McRaney Bards Copy Share Image
“Whatever groups you don’t belong to become the groups who you think will be bowled over by messages you don’t agree with.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“To make the world more just and fair, you have to make it harder for evil to thrive...” — David McRaney Evil Copy Share Image
“Catharsis THE MISCONCEPTION: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. THE… — David McRaney Anger Copy Share Image
“Brand loyalty—that nebulous emotional connection people have with certain companies, which turns them into defenders and advocates for corporations who don’t give… — David McRaney Brand loyalty Copy Share Image
“THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available,… — David McRaney Memories Copy Share Image
“Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your… — David McRaney Failure Copy Share Image
“If you see lots of shark attacks in the news, you think, 'Gosh, sharks are out of control.' What you should think… — David McRaney Fish Copy Share Image
“In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions… — David McRaney Science Copy Share Image
“Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn’t matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on… — David McRaney Politics Copy Share Image
“If three men couldn’t see eye to eye on who among them was and was not the real Jesus, your chances of… — David McRaney Art Copy Share Image
“If you neglect your personal space and allow chaos and clutter to creep in, it will affect you, and perhaps encourage further… — David McRaney Improve your life Copy Share Image
“Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one… — David McRaney Music Copy Share Image
“If you are thinking about buying a particular make of new car, you suddenly see people driving that car all over the… — David McRaney Bias Copy Share Image
“there is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“To match the complexity of your conscious experience and your unconscious processing, to deal with the constant confusion bombarding your senses and… — David McRaney Psychology Copy Share Image
“When you need something to be true, you will look for patterns; you connect the dots like the stars of a constellation.… — David McRaney Divination Copy Share Image
“You can’t improve the things you love if you never allow them to be imperfect. Thinking in this way, if you looked… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“To be sure, you would like to live in a world where people in white hats bring people in black hats to… — David McRaney Control of your life Copy Share Image
“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."… — David McRaney Average person Copy Share Image
“The psychologist Jonathan Haidt says many people who don’t consciously believe in karma still believe deep down in some version of it,… — David McRaney Affirmative action Copy Share Image
“In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain… — David McRaney Research Copy Share Image
“Wiseman speculated that what we call luck is actually a pattern of behaviors that coincide with a style of understanding and interacting… — David McRaney Habits Copy Share Image
“You make plans and decisions assuming randomness and chaos are for chumps. The illusion of control is a peculiar thing because it… — David McRaney Bigger picture Copy Share Image
“When you fear you will confirm a negative stereotype, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy not because the stereotype is true, but… — David McRaney Men and women Copy Share Image
“If someone you know gets sick from taking a flu shot, you will be less likely to get one even if it… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness.” — David McRaney Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the result of prediction.” — David McRaney Future Copy Share Image
“A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance.” — David McRaney Inheritance Copy Share Image
“You can't rage against the machine through rebellious consumption.” — David McRaney Computers Copy Share Image
“The more info you get about a statement, the more likely you are to believe that statement.” — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“you are the same as an insect, just with a more complex nervous system responding to stimuli with a wider array of… — David McRaney Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Jokes and movies, comic books and professional wrestling, television shows and news programs—they all present dramatic interpretations of facts and fiction in… — David McRaney Books Copy Share Image
