![]() As a young boy, Kahneman lived with his family in a chicken coop in France to avoid detection by the Nazis during World War II. Half of the book is largely redundant Kahneman himself wrote an excellent 2011 popular book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow." Lewis skillfully highlights the wide-reaching implications of some of these ideas, but much of what makes his new book original is his deep reporting on the personalities and biographies of the two psychologists.īoth men lived interesting and dramatic lives. ![]() In "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," Lewis narrates the long friendship of Kahneman and Tversky and explains some of their most influential ideas. It was simply an illustration of ideas that have been floating around for decades and had yet to be fully appreciated by, among others, me." He thinks those ideas - many of which classify the systematic biases in human cognition - originated in the collaborative work of two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. After describing his 2003 best-seller "Moneyball," Lewis writes, "My book wasn't original. ![]() ![]() While introducing his new book, journalist Michael Lewis makes an unusual and gracious concession. ![]()
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