A review by shankythegreat
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

4.0

Humans intrinsically seek determinism and certainty yet as Buddha so eloquently said, the only thing certain in life is change. Our brain has various heuristics to make sense of the world and the above described mismatch leads to fundamental mistakes in our decision making apparatus. Many of these were classified and described by two great psychologists of this era Daniel Kahnemann and Amos Tversky. This book whilst mainly focusing on the lives of these two individuals and the growth of their intertwined research career in the midst of the genesis and fight for survival of the state of Israel, describes many of the heuristics they found and the subsequent effect it had in multiple disciplines ranging from public policy, foreign policy, economics and medicine.