Hacking Your Mind

Explore the startlingly new discovery that we humans make many of our decisions as if we were on autopilot Though its essential to our survival autopilot decisions can lead anyone to make predictable mistakes including being biased toward people of a different race different age or different gender    

Explore why its so incredibly easy for others to hack our autopilot decisions so well automatically do not whats good for us but good for them Everyone from marketers to politicians do it so heres what you need to know to protect yourself from the hackers

Explore how much of the divisiveness in America today has its roots in the way in which our autopilot biases distort how we see both us and them how social media companies are using that to enrich themselves how authoritarians are using it to control us and how we can start to see both us and them as we really are

Explore a revolutionary new discovery that the autopilot decisions we make are literally contagious to others As China is using that discovery to control a billion people we the citizens of a democracy can use it to embrace the better angels of our nature and revitalize our nation