The Undoing Project

A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.

dennis boutsikaris has a terrific voice.

paired with lewis' trademarked smart story telling, Dennis' reading is perfect. the best of audio books..

An eye opener project

An interesting review of friendship, exceptional knowledge and world changing academic partnership. Michael Lewis once again exposed two great minds and their contributions to all aspects of personal, social, and organizational reasoning.

Wow, very interesting! Trust the reviews...

Based on the description, this is not a book I would have downloaded. But I have always liked Michael Lewis books, and the other reviews were so good, I took a chance. Glad I did! Many thanks to those who posted their positive reviews.

If you like Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell, Jon Ronson, or Leonard Mlodinow books, you will enjoy this one.

Great story, good science

This was a great book. Really cool story that is quite romantic and just cute all around. Very smart, sometimes funny and such a good narrator. That guy conveys so much with his subtle tones. I think he’s the best narrator I’ve encountered. Great book. Heartwarming and inspiring story.

Makes you want to find your intellectual soulmate, like they did.

Inspiring

Educational and academic with a wonderful story, we can only hope to have a relationship like Taverski and Conoman. Follows two truly exceptional minds through multiple wars and all the slings and arrows of normal life.

Great Story - Everyone Should Hear This

A revelation how the mind works. l'm physician who spent career dealing with such errors.

Fast and Slow

makes you want to read thinking fast and Slow again if you already read it. although the book is incredibly slow in the beginning.

Two people who changed the world

An absolutely wonderfully written book about the brilliant and amazng minds of two outstandingly psychologists , their lives and research into the logic and the working of our attitudes and perceptions

A Great Author and a Great Subject

I very much enjoyed Michael Lewis’ story of two geniuses whose collaboration produced work economics and psychology that revolutionized conventional thinking in both fields.

I chose this book after reading Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow in order to learn the personal side of that collaboration. Mr Lewis did not disappoint me.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has read with pleasure Mr. Lewis’ other books and is curious why human beings do not act in ways predicted by economists who believe that humans are always rational actors.

This book proves the reason I’m into biographies.

By reading these types of books that explain detailed memories of people’s lives it is way easier and more fun to learn about them and at the same time, this makes the understanding of theories deeper.
This way it is almost impossible to forget it as you have been living with those people.