5 Top biography books like The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By: Michael Lewis

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta…

"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"

-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

If you liked the biography plot in The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

By: Roger Lowenstein

4.20

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk … read more

Similar categories in Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management book and Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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2. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • science
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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4. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

Format: None pages,

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the g… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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5. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

By: Nate Silver

3.75

Format: None pages,

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science

6. The End of Wall Street

By: Roger Lowenstein

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Watch a Video Download the cheat sheet for Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street>> The roots of… read more

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7. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

By: Richard H. Thaler

4.16

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • science

8. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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9. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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10. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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11. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By: Bryan Burrough , John Helyar

4.27

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"With every girl there was a moment before you broke up when you knew - you just knew - that if you left her right then, you would never make up."

-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

"Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investm…"

-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

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12. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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13. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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14. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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15. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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17. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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18. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • science
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20. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By: Michael Lewis

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds book and Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • science
"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"

-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

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Roger Lowenstein

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

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3.96

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Grit

Angela Duckworth

4.67

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