Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain BOTY_2025 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets

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Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain BOTY_2025 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From theA Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought provoking look at the role of self deception in human flourishing. Self deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically,