Hardwired - The Deceived Mind: How Your Brain Bends What You Choose, Remember and See

By The Clumsy Monkey

You are not seeing the world. You are seeing your brain's best guess about it.

Every waking second, your mind edits reality before it reaches you - filling gaps, discounting the constant, deciding before you know you've decided - and hides the edit so completely that it feels like nothing at all. The Deceived Mind is a clear-eyed, evidence-first tour of that hidden machinery, and of what it means that the most trustworthy-feeling parts of your experience are quietly constructed.

Across sixteen short chapters you'll find out why a 6 coffee makes a 5 one feel cheap; why you can't tickle yourself; why two people looked at one photograph of a dress and saw different colours; why bad news outruns the truth online; and why your phone is built, deliberately, like a slot machine. Each chapter follows a real, named study to a surprising conclusion - and says plainly what is settled science and what is still being argued over.
This is the second book in the HARDWIRED series, in which The Clumsy Mon(k)ey takes the strangest findings in psychology and neuroscience and explains them with warmth, care and proper sourcing - no hype, no overclaiming, just the genuinely astonishing truth about the machine behind your eyes.
Sixteen chapters, one idea: the deception is almost always in service of sense.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9D5GKM5
• ISBN13: 9798187757848
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"