What If Everything You Believe About Yourself Is Wrong?
In the Michael Lewis book “The Undoing Project” which is about the work Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky did in the 1970’s they identify the underlying thinking and processes that allow for cognitive basis and common human errors in thinking that arise from heuristics and biases.
I’m not going to re-hash the whole book here. You should take the time to read it (or if you wait a little while it will be a movie soon).
My key takeaway from the book was the relationship between Amos and Danny (as they were referred to numerous times in the book) and how they kept pushing each other to test their assumptions. They did some groundbreaking work on the way the human mind words and how our biases can trick us into making decisions that may not be in our best interests.
