Lewis explains, “The central part of their work is that we are wired for fallibility it is not shameful. Often it is good but it has these glitches of making up false stories and finding false parallels.” We have this tool for getting through life for making judgements and is not a statistician it is not comfortable with probabilisitic calculations. Says Lewis, “They (Tversky and Kahneman), are exploring human nature: they way the mind works dealing with uncertainty and they have insights after insights on cognitive illusions: the mental equivalent of optical illusions.how our mind is capable of tricking us in certain circumstances. Six years before Kahneman got the award, Tversky died, but by then they had also separated in their academic career, painfully. One of the friends is Daniel Kahneman who got the Nobel Prize in 2002 for the work did in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Amos Tversky. In his latest (2016), “The Undoing project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds”, Lewis explores a friendship and the lessons it has left for us. “We exaggerate the infallibility of the mind,” says Michael Lewis author of many great books, few of which have been turned into movies, (”Moneyball”, “The Blind Side” and “The Big Short”.)
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