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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,497
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,484
Forty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made Michael Lewis' work possible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Behind the scenes of amazing science
- De Neuron en 10-16-17
- The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
Cognitive Bromance
Revisado: 03-19-17
Compelling behind the scenes tell all of the unlikely collaboration behind so many important perspectives we now take for granted.
My appreciation of the ideas of behavioral economics is richer in the light of this fraught yet achingly human backstory.
People who love exploring the ways our minds fool us and the difficult importance of two minds working together as one will enjoy this one. Can't wait to see what clever filmmakers do with the material.
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Greetings from Utopia Park
- Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
- De: Claire Hoffman
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
When Claire Hoffman's alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven - Iowa - to live in Maharishi's national headquarters for Heaven on Earth. For Claire's mother, Transcendental Meditation - the Maharishi's method of meditation and his approach to living the fullest possible life - was a salvo that promised world peace and enlightenment just as their family fell apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- De Amazon Customer en 06-15-16
- Greetings from Utopia Park
- Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
- De: Claire Hoffman
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
It takes a village, with or without a guru
Revisado: 08-26-16
This is my favorite kind of memoir. The ones that feel like getting to know a new friend, with frequent shocks of recognition, and plenty of memories from my own life bubbling up to the surface.
It's a story about being raised in a community based on the teachings of a spiritual guru, but the dynamics will be familiar to anyone who has been immersed in a fundamentalist worldview. Instead of mocking the true believers from her childhood, Claire Hoffman allows us to see the absurdity of their loyalty and deference without losing sight of their humanity. It's written with respect, restraint, and tenderness.
In large part, it feels like an adult child's love letter to her mother. There is something so universal and relatable about doing the best we can as parents. Every decision her mother makes along the way is fueled by hope for a better life — even a better world. She's a devoted, earnest, and warm character who can't afford not to believe. I was on her side throughout. And being equally on Claire's side never felt like a contradiction. It revealed the complexity of parenting, growing up, and individuation.
There's not a shred of naïveté in this memoir, but there's not any bitterness either. This can't be by accident. What a gift it is to get glimpses of someone losing her faith in unquestioned authority and absolute answers growing to embrace the messiness of real life with enthusiasm, humility, and kindness.
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