Your Brain's Favourite Lies

You've never been more certain of anything in your life. You remember it perfectly, you knew it all along, and everyone agrees with you. The only problem? Your brain is lying to you. Again.

Your Brain's Favorite Lies is your field guide to the mental shortcuts and cognitive biases that shape your everyday decisions—often without you even noticing. From the hindsight bias that convinces you that you "knew it all along," to the Dunning-Kruger effect that explains why the most confident person in the room is often the one who knows the least, this book reveals the hidden traps your brain sets for you.

You'll discover why you're more afraid of shark attacks than heart disease (the availability heuristic), why you keep throwing good money after bad decisions (the sunk cost fallacy), and why you assume everyone else thinks like you (the false consensus effect). Each chapter explores a different cognitive bias, backed by real research, with practical strategies for spotting these mental tricks in your own life.

But here's the liberating truth: these biases aren't bugs in your mental software—they're features that usually work pretty well. The goal isn't to eliminate them (which is impossible) but to become aware of them so you can make slightly better decisions despite them. Because your brain isn't broken—it's just doing its best with some very old software in a very new world. And now that you know its favorite lies, you're a little harder to fool than you used to be.