You Can Beat Your Brain

If you have not read Daniel Kahneman, this is a good beginning. If you read Thinking Fast , Thinking Slow, then you would encounter some repetitions.

Really an eye opening book on how our brain works. Easy to read and understand the concepts and also relate to our daily lives. Loved it!!!

simple read for beginner-intro level psychology lovers/enthusiasts. The author does a great job of keeping his audience's attention while not being overly descriptive.

I really enjoyed this book - some amazing eye-opening facts and numerous "Aha!" moments - so much so, that I came back to buy "You Are Not So Smart"... This has made me look at my decisions, my thinking processes and life in a whole new light. Brilliant stuff.

This book seems to present the same content as the "You're now less dumb". It is a very nice and well written book, but anyone who has "You're now..." might now get anything new by buying this book.

Great book

I bought this book on the strength of McRaney's last book, You Are Not So Smart, which I also highly recommend. It's an enjoyable of the psychological literature, which otherwise would be quite dry; he does an excellent job at drawing the various threads together and weaving them into a high-readable narrative. I only have one bone to pick: in the chapter on ego depletion, which relies heavily on research by Roy Baumeister, he says "no matter what the self-help books say, the research suggests that willpower isn't a skill", whereas in Baumeister's book Willpower, he says that you can actually get better at self-control through practice. Other than that though, I found it enlightening - and who knows, maybe it will help me beat my brain.