Glitch

Neil Bage built his sense of self on a memory his sister says never happened.

For decades, he never thought to question it. Why would he? It felt completely real. But it led to a bigger question: what else does the brain get wrong without us ever noticing?

Quite a lot, as it turns out.

Your memory rewrites the past. Your perception edits reality. Your predictions are frequently wrong. Time speeds up and slows down. Emotions hijack logic. You make decisions you can't explain, crave control you don't have, become a slightly different person depending on who's in the room, and construct a sense of self that's far less stable than it feels.

But these are not signs something's wrong with you. They're not flaws. They're what happens when an ancient brain runs a modern life.

In Glitch, Bage draws on two decades working at the coalface of behavioural science, and a lifetime of his own missteps, to turn nine glitches into something you can finally see clearly.

You don't need a better brain. You need to understand the one you already have. Because the things that make it imperfect might also be the things that make you perfectly human.