A review by mia333
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot

informative reflective

After about chapter 4 or 5, the writing got repetitive and formulaic, and I felt she had already made all her claims and explained them all. Some of the claims and explanations were not strong, but I think it's a good book to see lines of reasoning in context and to evaluate an argument. It taught me about my own optimism in comparison to the rest of the world, and how it affects my own life.