A delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. "Magical thinking" can be broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world. Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded. As Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, the prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves.
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