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  • A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
  • Written by: Michael Lewis
  • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (205 ratings)

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The Undoing Project

Written by: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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Publisher's Summary

Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield - both had important careers in the Israeli military - and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind.

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©2016 Michael Lewis (P)2016 Simon & Schuster

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Probably Lewis’s worst book

I love the author. He can usually make a nice story with boring banking stories. But this task was too much. Sorry Michael but this one is no good

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Overrated and Uninteresting

What promises to be an another interesting read from Michael Lewis, turns out to be a very long winded and painfully detailed story about two thinkers with a tortured relationship. It takes until the last 30 minutes to find anything interesting or insightful from the story and is unlike any Michael Lewis book to date. Not recommended.

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Fascinating Book

This is a really great book for anybody looking to learn more about psychology and how the way the human mind operates, systemically deceives, and sometimes inhibits, our decisions making capability. I would highly recommend this book, even if you don't have a knowledge of psychology. #Audible1

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Book & Narration

- Read it when I was 18, and loved everything about Danny and Amos. Listened to it again 10 years later and fell in love again.
- Narrator was excellent, like the best ever

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Fabulous story. Betsy Smith Vancouver Canada

Wish it was longer. I would like to have met the author. Always the ‘oddballs’ that make our world more interesting.

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Great!

Good. Great. Fun. True. Facts. Fax. Noobs. Economics. Psychology. Psych101. Yup. Read. Reading. Book. Bookish.

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Lewis’s Best

My only regret is, it wasn’t longer. I think I now have read, and/or listened to all of Michael Lewis’s books, I think this is my favorite. Riveting in a very quiet way.

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The pitfalls of our reasoning and a biography

A mix between a biography of two friends and a description of their work in psychology and the effects of that work on the world. The mental pitfalls called huristics are very interesting, if you're also a fan of biographies then that's a plus.

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Not one of Michael Lewis’ better books.

Although I did not actually find The Undoing Project an enjoyable listen, I did listen to the entire book. While I enjoy Michael Lewis’ writing style this book did not ‘hit the mark’ for me unfortunately.

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The Undoing Project

Love Michael Lewis books but this one was so boring.
Perhaps if I were a statistician I would have foundries more interesting unfortunately I’m not!

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