Better Living Through Better Thinking

We all know the story of the emperor’s new clothes. It was told to us as children, and no doubt most of us, even as children, scoffed (how could something like that ever happen?). No doubt we all still scoff at the story today. But the story has far more truth than we realize.

The all-too-human desire to fit in, to be part of the group, often causes us to misjudge things and to act in ways which, truth be told, are not the best decision or are not reflective of reality. In Collective Illusions , Doctor Todd Rose looks at this seeming paradox: why do we keep believing things that are not true?