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  • How Our Brains Betray Us

  • Change the Way You Think and Make Better Decisions by Understanding the Cognitive Biases and Heuristics That Destroy Our Lives!
  • By: Magnus McDaniels
  • Narrated by: Cody Davids
  • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (51 ratings)

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How Our Brains Betray Us

By: Magnus McDaniels
Narrated by: Cody Davids
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Tired of making decisions that seem to only work against you? It starts with understanding your brain and the decision-making process. Cognitive biases and heuristics have developed over thousands of years of evolution and can lead to serious damages in multiple areas of life if you don’t recognize them and stop them dead in their tracks.

How Our Brains Betray Us has everything you need to know with examples, tools, and strategies to identify the most powerful cognitive biases that impair all types of decisions, how to avoid them and also use them to your advantage so you can finally feel worthy and confident again.

Inside you will discover:

  • Why our biases matter, and how they can be playing a negative role in your life
  • Different types of biases, like survivorship, egocentric, decision fatigue, and more
  • Why you always seem to take mental shortcuts unconsciously, not realizing the mistakes until it’s too late
  • How to identify the unconscious mental shortcuts that aren’t serving you and how to stop them immediately
  • Exactly how and why a lot of our decision-making process is flawed
  • Real-life examples of different biases in action, and how to avoid the unfulfilling results
  • How to identify your own biases
  • How to finally end FOMO (fear of missing out) for good
  • Tools and strategies to prepare for cognitive biases and use them to your advantage
  • How to make and maintain objective decision-making
  • And much more

If you’re ready to stop falling victim to biases that are only serving to hurt you, then you owe it to yourself to take this journey.... Look no further; scroll up, and grab your copy now!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Magnus McDaniels (P)2022 Magnus McDaniels
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Very Detailed!

The book goes into great detail to help you understand where you are going wrong with your thoughts. Biases and heuristics can rule your mind, and you never know it. The author did a great job highlighting those biases and heuristics in our lives and then supplying good strategies so that we can identify those biases and heuristics in our own life. If you can recognize them in your life, you will be able to make better decisions because you are then knowledgeable. Since you are knowledgeable about biases that would impair your decision-making, when a decision does come along, and your mind is naturally biased then you get to recognize your bias and make a more informed decision simply because you are aware of how that bias is influencing how you think and act. Love this book!

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Compassionate knowledgeable author

One of the most useful, soothing, gut-renching, awe-inspiring listen of this decade!! This book unravels the human condition in the most elegant yet educational format.

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Quality book

This was a good book. What the cover says is exactly what you're getting. It addresses issues that I didn't even know exist, and it was intriguing to learn about them.

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Special thanks to author for this audiobook.

This is great book that causes you to think about what you are doing or what you should be doing. There are lot many things explained in this book that can help us in our daily life. Special thanks to author for this audiobook.

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The best book I have read about heuristics

it's really informative - without unnecessary fluff. Highly recommended to anybody who wants to make better decisions.

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An inspiring book.

If you are having a hard time understanding how life can change and how to focus more on self-healing get this book. It really changes how you see things and puts it more in a positive perspective.

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Amazing book! Highly recommend

This book is a guide to successful living and walks the listener step-by-step on how to format their thinking for success. Amazing book! Highly recommend

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Great and very effective audiobook

This book helps you unleash the potential of focused thinking. By thinking you add value to your live and to other people. There are many thinking questions throughout the book to guide your thinking.

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Very eye-opening!

Controlling your mind is one of the hardest tasks to do. We make judgements and decisions everyday and are not aware of it. This book does a good job revealing all those thoughts that cross our mind daily and how to recognize biases that negatively effect our decisions. The one I learned the most about from this book was the framing effect. But not only does this book recognize the negative it informs you with strategies to turn these negative thoughts and biases into positive ones. I learned so much from this book!

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Awesome book!

Great listen. You will not regret getting this book. Teaching you a lot about the mind and yourself. Very easy to listen to. I listened to the whole book in one sitting because of how interesting the information is.

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