I ABSOLUTLEY HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK. I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis’s books (Moneybag, The Big Short, The New New Thing) and if you haven’t seen me quoting and citing Daniel Kahneman’s and Amos Tversky’s work from Thinking Fast & Slow about how our intuitions can mislead us you’re not reading anything I write.
“In “The Undoing Project,” Mr. Lewis has found the granddaddy of all stories about counterintuition, because Dr. Kahneman and Dr. Tversky did some of the most definitive research about just how majestically, fantastically unreliable our intuition can be. The biases they identified that distort our decision-making are now so well known — like our outsize aversion to loss, for instance — that we take them for granted. Together, you can safely say, these two men made possible the field of behavioral economics, which is predicated on the notion that humans do not always behave rationally.” — Jennifer senior
It comes out Dec 6th and I be starting it that day…
(P.S. to all my Greeley friends while I do not know her personally this review was written by Jennifer Senior a Horace Greeley High School grad and Chappaqua resident and a very good writer and speaker in her own right)
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