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Why smart women make bad decisions, and how critical thinking can protect them, Annie McCubbin

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Why smart women make bad decisions, and how critical thinking can protect them, Annie McCubbin

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why smart women make bad decisions

Responsibility statement

Annie McCubbin

Sub title

and how critical thinking can protect them

Summary

In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions, our protagonist Kat is learning that the philosophy of 'Believe in yourself and Magic will happen' will not deliver her a better life. Her story, which recounts her hapless attempts to navigate scenarios disturbingly familiar to many readers, is presented with a companion account of the cognitive quirks that drive her faulty thinking and behaviour. This is neuroscience explained through the lens of a modern comedy; the buggy brain stripped bare in a laugh out loud takedown of magical thinking and the goofy, delusional selfactualisation movement. Kat discovers that the simplistic advice to honour your intuition is not all it's cracked up to be. Despite practising Gratitude and Acceptance, she is still failing to lose the 2.35 kilos that preoccupy her. Despite her Positive Thinking, her performance review leaves her limp with despair, and despite her assiduous application to making affirmations, her philandering Hipster Boyfriend leaves her (taking with him the remote control). In the companion explanation to each chapter, readers will discover what drives people to behave in blindly optimistic and selfdestructive ways. If only they could apply the critical thinking that our narrator suggests, smart women would indeed stop making bad decisions. It becomes clear to Kat, and in turn the reader, that positive thinking, meditation and magical thinking will not turn her life around. Instead, women should apply the narrator's advice and change the inherent cognitive flaws that run, and often ruin, their lives

Target audience

adult

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