Lewis made us feel the chaos and the unlikelihood of such a success, in this case, of ever finding that one person who complements another so perfectly that the two literally spur one another to greater accomplishment. What is remarkable about that statement is also what is remarkable about Lewis’ attempt to explain it. By the end of this book I was bawling aloud, in total sync with what Lewis was trying to convey: why humans do what we do.ĭaniel Kahneman is a psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. Lewis did something else he’d not done before as well. In this he tries the trick of explaining confusion by demonstrating confusion, but near the end of this work we appreciate again Lewis’ distinctive clarity and well-developed sense of irony as he addresses a very consequential collaboration in the history of ideas. But he proved to be “off the charts.This nonfiction is unlike others Michael Lewis has offered us. No college teams had wanted to draft him out of high school, and NBA teams were also reluctant because they believed that he wasn’t athletic. Lewis gave the example of basketball player Jeremy Lin. “And often, the person who’s best for the job doesn’t look right for the job.” “So it’s one of the reasons markets misvalue people, is that people are thinking, ‘Does it look right?’” Lewis explained. “One of the things they talk about is the way the mind thinks in stereotypes… We have some model in our mind of what the president looks like, or what a basketball player looks like…. Every time he has an idea, he becomes unsure of the idea,” Lewis said.īut Lewis said “the work they did together was so much better than anything they did separately.” It would create the field of behavioral economics, for which Danny won the Nobel Prize in 2002.
“It’s like watching an animal trying to swallow itself whole, starting with his tail. On the contrary, Danny, a survivor of the Holocaust, was a “welter of doubt,” Lewis said. He was totally sure of his own judgment and he was often right to be sure,” Lewis said. “But the big thing was… Amos was the most self-certain person anybody knew. Danny’s office was “such chaos,” Lewis said, that his secretary tied his scissors to his desk just so he wouldn’t lose them. Amos was painstakingly neat, with nothing but one pencil and a sheet of paper on his desk, and nothing plastered on his walls.
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