The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds Audiobook (Free)

Bestselling writer Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our understanding of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote some breathtakingly original research undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their documents showed the ways that the human mind erred, systematically, when pressured to make judgments about uncertain circumstances. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, about The Undoing Project: A Camaraderie that Transformed Our Minds revolutionized Big Data research, 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 accountable than anybody for the powerful pattern to mistrust individual intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Task is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who’ve the dimensions of great literary figures. They truly became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both acquired important careers in the Israeli military―and their analysis was deeply linked to their extraordinary existence experiences. Along the way they may well have transformed, for good, mankind’s look at of its mind.