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  • The Undoing Project

  • A Friendship That Changed the World
  • By: Michael Lewis
  • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (403 ratings)

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The Undoing Project

By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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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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©2016 Michael Lewis (P)2016 Penguin Audio

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Tragic and overwhelmingly beautiful

The story of Danny and Amos sneaks up on you. Michael Lewis writes with their pragmatism which guards you as you listen to stories so unimaginable in their horror... until the last sentence where you fracture. Amazing - this book and these men have affected me in a way no other book has.

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Average

It’s a light read
It’s not a biography neither a non fiction
I guess it’s in between
I like fact books and I hate biographies.
I learned few new things from this book which is great i suppose.
If you’re like me you may not enjoy it very much
If you like biographies you may enjoy it.
It’s good time as I could finish it easily and the material is not too heavy so you can retain a lot of the info just by listening
Overall it’s a good book. Definitely read more enjoyable books but this one isn’t bad at all
Performance is excellent!

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Good but ....

Enjoyable but somehow left a little hollow. Would rather slightly less waffle and more examples of how their theories are used in practice today Maybe that’s a follow up book ...

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Fantastic book

Great story mixed in with some really exciting discoveries in the field of psychology and economics. Dense with information and very thought provoking.

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A Beautiful Telling

This was a beautiful telling of the lives of The Odd Couple of the unexpected, yet wholly important, bridging of the studies of economics and psychology, later galvanised in Richard Thayler's work on Behavioral Economics.

The telling of their story is superb and, despite Lewis' stated attempts to present a book which would be "unfilmable" has, to me, so articulately constructed a work which renders itself so easily to the big screen, that I believe if that's his true ambition, he ought to try harder. Given his roles in Lewis' previous adaptations, Moneyball and The Big Short, I would cast Pitt as Redelmeier.

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Awkward biography disguised as an insightful book

This is the most disappointing book I listened to on Audible. The book was highly recommended on multiple resources devoted to personal development and leadership and has high rating in recommendations. In essence, it is a poorly written biography of 2 psychologists with rare awkward attempts to share on the fundamental research they devoted their lives to.

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If you like Michael Lewis, you'll like this

John Williams in the NYTimes Book Review once wrote of Michael Lewis "I would read an 800-page history of the stapler if he wrote it." I probably would too.

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its interesting but some parts a bit long winded

great story. but some chapters could be shorter and dragged on a bit. great narrating though

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A story of friendship and brilliance

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Amos and Danny’s friendship and psychological discoveries were intriguing. Beautifully written and read.

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Prelude to Thinking Fast and Slow

Found some of this book a bit tedious and difficult to keep listening to in parts. But it was worth it for the history of behavioural economics.

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