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Trusting one’s intuition to make good decisions is still a popular practice, but it shouldn’t be. Behavioral scientists have long known that the human mind is hard-wired for error and that our misplaced faith in “gut” judgments is further proof of innate...

“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.” – Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to see a live one hour interview with Michael Lewis at...

How can we free ourselves from the chains of cognitive biases and get more of the results we want? Download and listen-on-the-go to Episode 107 to find out.  Inspired by The Undoing Project by Moneyball author Michael Lewis, Scott and I discuss our...

Daniel Kahneman is a professor of behavioral & cognitive psychology at Princeton, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for economics, and author of the best-selling book on cognitive biases and heuristics: Thinking Fast & Slow. Get The Timeless Reading...

It’s the intellectual bromance of the last century. Two psychologists — Danny, a Holocaust kid and adviser to the Israel Defence Forces, and Amos, a former child prodigy and paratrooper — meet at the end of the 1960s, and sparks immediately begin to...