As if I needed any reminders!

 You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself, by David McRaney

Actually, I don’t have too many friends on Facebook, and I was already well aware that I am not a genius. Nevetheless, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the title of this book. It turns out that we do not always think or act rationally, we just trick ourselves into believing that we do. This book will teach you all about priming, confirmation bias, the argument from authority, subjective validation, the illusion of asymmetric insight, and all the other ways you delude yourself into thinking you are smarter than you actually are. If you are curious about why you make stupid or irrational decisions, this book can be quite helpful. It is humbling, and yet oddly comforting.

Interesting note - this book actually started as a blog:  http://youarenotsosmart.com/. I could  have saved myself the money I spent on the book and just read the blog instead, if my feeble little brain hadn’t been primed by the clever advertising (it was an impulse buy).

Next up:  Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman