A review by seanhatesnamerestrictions
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

3.0

This book is basically a series of anecdotes about people who thought they were doing great but were fucking up massively, and instead of recognizing their mistakes blamed others when things went wrong. So it would be a perfect read for 90% of the League of Legends player base, as well as the President.

The prose isn't great - it goes back and forth between trying to be poetic and being overly casual, and I struggled to finish the book. However, the examples are usually backed up with research, and the authors make a lot of interesting points about the fallibility of our brains and the lengths we'll go to justify decisions we make, even terrible ones.