Any inquisitive lay reader will find this book full of fascinating insights into the imperfections of our mind, the many cognitive biases and “the way the human mind worked, or failed to work, when it was forming judgments and making decisions”. Lewis, author of Flash Boys and Moneyball, has written another page-turner. In The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World, Michael Lewis focuses on the unlikely and intimate friendship and professional collaboration between Danny and Amos. Most were later deported to the death camp of Auschwitz.(Sygma via Getty Images) Psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s father was one of the thousands of Jews who were rounded up and taken to the Drancy camp outside Paris. They went around the battlefields in a jeep distributing psychology questionnaires to Israeli soldiers. But Daniel Kahneman (“Danny”) and Amos Tversky (“Amos”) were gifted Israeli psychologists who naturally took the first plane out of America to go back to Israel to join the Yom Kippur war of 1973. There aren’t many professors of psychology who have jumped out of airplanes or slept on the ground next to a battle tank in the middle of a raging war.
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