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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy.
In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football.
Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind.
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- Sue
- 12-10-17
Clearly, we only know a fraction of our minds
We know that the field of behavioral economics is a kind of the wild west of the sciences, filled with speculation, outlaws, and not a little shenanigans. And yet it is by far one of the most fascinating and controversial sciences on the popular stage.
This story is almost like a love affair between two visionary scholars, Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky. Their shared admiration and respect for one another, and opposite personalities, led them across the world from Israel, in the pursuit for knowledge.
The author notes the halo effect in which people see favourable attributes and let that impression impact the assessment of other attributes. Kahneman and Tversky later refer to this as Representativeness involving premature characterisation of an object or an individual.
While this is less plot driven than the author's other works The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short, it is still an endearing tale.
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- Conor Cunningham
- 29-03-23
Good story but it misled me
Good story but the friendship came a little late in the book and the findings felt like they ended too quickly in the story
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- Bill
- 15-09-17
A powerful and evocative story of twinned minds
Where does The Undoing Project rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The best philosophical biography i have ever read/ listened to
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Undoing Project?
How Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky's experiences of the Holocaust (and War in Israel's military) fundamentally shaped who they were; was it these experinces that fostered characters destined to be collaborators together as much as it created people that would inevitably tear apart from one another?!
Which character – as performed by Dennis Boutsikaris – was your favourite?
Amos was the most compelling and intriguiung character as you don't feel you get to understand or see all of his emotional levels.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes, it opened my mind to collaboration between scholars as being completely equal. The whole is greater than sum of the parts is as true in Academia as it is anywhere else in life.
Any additional comments?
The story of two trailblazers who will leave/ have left the world a better place as a result of their work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-01-19
Brilliant.
An incredibly constructed narration on the life of two of the most influential people of the 20th Century. I was familiar with Kahneman and Tversky but having the context provided around their relationship provides a much richer understanding and appreciation of their work.
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- Gavin F.
- 18-02-20
great story which stimulates the mind
a little long in places but comes together at the end.
Dani and Amos deserve more recognition for their work globally
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- D. J. Pritchard
- 24-01-17
A must read for anyone interested in anything
Truly engaging and enlightening telling of the way all areas of life have been affected by the work of two amazing characters. I can see myself listening to this over and over.
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- Allan
- 29-02-20
Engrossing
It felt like you really got to know the characters and their stories. Deep and thought provoking listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-20
A belter, and no mistake.
Old Micky Lewis has outdone himself here. A great balance between the narrative of the relationship between two legends and a delightful taste of their genius and incredibly far-reaching insights.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-01-19
The persons behind the mind
I'd read Thinking, Fast snd Slow by DK and i'd read Nudge by RT&SC and yet knew very little about the human beings behind the work. How all of it could easily not have happened
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- bc1056
- 17-06-23
Fascinating pair of humans
Danny and Amos - what a pair of humans. Thank you Michael Lewis for this introduction to them
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