Kahneman, though, is unsure of most everything. “He was a breathtakingly gifted mind and very, very, very sure of himself.” “Amos Tversky is one of these rare characters who thought he was right about everything, and is right,” Lewis said. Neither, on their own, was terribly disruptive, says Lewis, but together, “they were this combustible force” - two brilliant minds that seemed completely different. Eventually, both moved to universities in North America. What captivated Lewis was their relationship they met in the psychology department at Hebrew University. “They took dead aim at it, and they dealt it a death blow.” “What they were engaged in right from the beginning was undoing a false view man has in himself, the view that the mind is somehow rational and untrickable and potentially infallible,” Lewis said. The bestselling author’s new book examines two esteemed psychologists’ studies of why human judgment is often fatally flawed. It’s been said they changed the way we think about thinking. How can the gut instincts of apparent experts - and all of us, for that matter - so often be so wrong? That question is what Kahneman and Tversky studied for decades. “The question is, like, ‘Why does that happen?’” “Undervalued, for sure,” Blackstone agreed.
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