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    The Undoing Project - Summarized for Busy People: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Based on the Book by Michael Lewis
    The Undoing Project - Summarized for Busy People: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Based on the Book by Michael Lewis
    The Undoing Project - Summarized for Busy People: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Based on the Book by Michael Lewis
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    The Undoing Project - Summarized for Busy People: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Based on the Book by Michael Lewis

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    This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

    Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli psychologists, collaborated on a series of radical studies that became the foundation of behavioral economics forty years ago. Considered one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, the two started a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, government regulation, and much of Michael Lewis’s own work. The Undoing Project shows the story of how the Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind changed how we perceive reality.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoldmine Reads
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9788834131664
    The Undoing Project - Summarized for Busy People: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Based on the Book by Michael Lewis

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      THE UNDOING PROJECT

      Summarized For Busy People

      A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

      Based on the Book by Michael Lewis

      Goldmine Reads

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      TABLE OF CONTENT

      THE UNDOING PROJECT

      BOOK OVERVIEW

      ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY

      BOOK SUMMARY

      The Psychology of Moneyball

      Introducing Danny Kahneman

      Danny’s Role in the Israeli Army

      Giving Up on Studying Personality

      Introducing Amos Tversky

      Amos Serves in the Military

      Amos Gets into Psychology

      Returning to Israel

      Danny’s Teaching

      Danny and Amos Collide

      Law of Small Numbers

      Rules of the Mind

      Errors of the Mind

      Regression to the Mean

      Systematic Bias

      Selective Matching

      Returning to Israel, Again

      Prospect Theory

      The Friendship Unravels

      The Simulation Heuristic

      The Undoing Project

      BOOK REVIEW AND ANALYSIS

      Positives

      Critiques

      Book Theme

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      BOOK OVERVIEW

      Moneyball, Michael Lewis’s best-selling book, looked into the Oakland A’s statistical approach in building a winning baseball team. This made a huge impact in the world of sports and pop culture. He had, however, received a critique where he ignored the work done by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who provided the theoretical basis for Moneyball. This also anticipated the process the Oakland A’s and others would take in order to re-evaluate the understanding of gains and losses. Moneyball, therefore, may have become a huge success for Lewis—but he had only told part of the story.

      In The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Lewis attempts to share the story of two men who laid the groundwork for his bestseller. He talks about their lives individually and together. It could serve as a populist primer for their theories. Kahneman was a Jew born in Paris who grew up running away from the Nazis along with his family and Tversky was a native Israeli. Lewis shares their defining moments, showing how these facts point towards their scientific lives and contributions.

      The two studied Psychology at Hebrew University and ended up continuing their studies at the University of Michigan. They

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