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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“[Daryl Morey] suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his mind well enough to mistrust it”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don’t know,”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Maybe the mind’s best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things. Over”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. “It”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

“After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“big choices we make are practically random. The small choices probably tell us more about who we are.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“I remember his words," recalled Amnon. "He said, 'There is nothing we can do in philosophy. Plato solved too many of the problems. We can't have any impact in this area. There are too many smart guys and too few problems left, and the problems have no solutions.'" The mind-body problem was a good example. How are our various mental events—what you believe, what you think—related to our physical states? What is the relationship between our bodies and our minds? The question was at least as old as Descartes, but there was still no answer in sight—at least not in philosophy. The trouble with philosophy, Amos thought, was that it didn't play by the rules of science.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Because metaphors are vivid and memorable, and because they are not readily subjected to critical analysis, they can have considerable impact on human judgment even when they are inappropriate, useless, or misleading,” said Amos. “They replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Knowledge is literally prediction,” said Morey. “Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Here was another way Israel was different from the United States: Its wars were short, and someone always won.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“The world’s not just a stage. It’s a casino, and our lives are games of chance. And when people calculate the odds in any life situation, they are often making judgments about similarity—or (strange new word!) representativeness. You”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book. It was a very good book.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“The nice thing about things that are urgent,” he liked to say, “is that if you wait long enough they aren’t urgent anymore.” “I”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“When someone says something, don’t ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.” That”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

“It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” Amos said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices probably tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on who happens to be around at the right time of life. On the other hand, the small decisions are very systematic. That I became a psychologist is probably not very revealing. What kind of psychologist I am may reflect deep traits.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
― Maxwell Maltz, The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

“The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.”
― Maxwell Maltz, New Psycho-Cybernetics