This is a laugh out loud, narrative-driven self-help book.
Instead, Women should apply the narrator\'s advice and change the inherent cognitive flaws that run, and often ruin, their lives..
It becomes clear to Kat, and in turn the reader, that positive thinking, meditation and magical thinking will not turn her life around.
If only they could apply the critical thinking that our narrator suggests, Smart Women would indeed stop making bad decisions.
In the companion explanation to each chapter, author Annie McCubbin explains to readers what drives people to behave in blindly optimistic and self-destructive ways.
Despite her Positive Thinking, her performance review leaves her limp with despair, and despite her assiduous application to making affirmations, her philandering Hipster Boyfriend leaves her (taking with him the remote control).
Despite practising Gratitude and Acceptance, she is still failing to lose the 2.35 kilos that preoccupy her.
Kat discovers that the simplistic advice to honour your intuition is not all it\'s cracked up to be.
This is neuroscience explained through the lens of a modern comedy; the buggy brain stripped bare in a laugh out loud takedown of magical thinking and the goofy, delusional self-actualisation movement.
Her story, which recounts her hapless attempts to navigate scenarios disturbingly familiar to many readers, is presented with a companion account of the cognitive quirks that drive her faulty thinking and behaviour.
In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decision s, our protagonist Kat is learning that the philosophy of \'Believe-in-yourself-and Magic-will-happen\' will not deliver her a better life.
Think Bridget Jones gets a critical makeover.
This is a laugh out loud, narrative-driven self-help book
