The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

I did not expect that a book about the scientific breakthroughs and the partnership of two psychologists would make me cry. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are opposites in many ways, one extrovert and always the centre of the party, the other introvert and self-doubting. Their shared interests and respect for each other's intellect made them fall deep into a successful and intense partnership. Their collaborations over decades almost bordered on a love story (without the sex). They inspired each other, balanced out each other's strengths and weaknesses, and together set out to proof that people are far less rational as economists and common sense would like to believe. They jumpstarted the fields of behavioural economics and set the foundation for Big Data projects. Yet all love stories have highs and lows, and this unexpectedly ended up being a very touching story.

A great mix of biography and science and insights into our own less-than-rational minds.