If you believe in yourself or others as perfectly (or even mostly) rational beings, this book will demolish such beliefs. It took me the better part of six months to read. Here’s an abridged list of what it changed about me in those six months:
- My interviewing practices and interview design (since humans are objectively terrible at subjective assessments)
- How I evaluate risk (since I’m too risk averse, even when I think I’m not)
- How I feel about my happiness (since regression to the mean is a thing, bad times are inevitable and have to follow good times by definition)
- How I make regret-based decisions (since we regret far fewer things than we believe we will regret)
It’s a heavy, dense book that has changed my life. I’ll have to return to it in 5-10 years for another pass - I’m sure I’m missing more lessons to be learned.
