Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions

This Is A Laugh Out Loud, NarrativeDriven SelfHelp Book. Think Bridget Jones Gets A Critical Makeover.In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions, Our Protagonist Kat Is Learning That The Philosophy Of BelieveInYourselfAnd MagicWillHappen 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 Take Down Of Magical Thinking And The Goofy, Delusional SelfActualisation Movement. Kat Discovers That The Simplistic Advice To Honour Your Intuition Is Not All ItS Cracked Up To Be. Despite Practising Gratitude And Acceptance, She Is Still Failing To Lose The 5Lbs 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, Author Annie Mccubbin Explains To Readers 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 NarratorS Advice And Change The Inherent Cognitive Flaws That Run, And Often Ruin, Their Lives.