A review by momentum262
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot

2.0

The topic of the "Optimism Bias" has come up often in our modern world, so this book had promise of delving into this subject. Mainly, I enjoyed the science discussions in the book about the brain and neuroscience related to the "Optimism Bias." I felt some of the experiments discussed covered the same topics, just in different ways, so it did get a bit repetitive. There was enough difference in the material to please any reader (i.e. some neuroscience-type lessons, some qualitative experiments, some history as it relates to psychology etc.), but as a whole it wasn't a deep page-turner. For a popular science non-fiction read on a dense topic, it does a great job explaining this theory to the general population.