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Pros & Cons
Pros
The psychology of human misjudgment is presented in three parts.
Cons
This book has lots of good information in it--- information about human knowledge, but very, very little about wisdom. In this, the book's title is simply wrong and misleading. It could be a great book in the 90's before people had an easy access to i... Read More
The book is little more than a curation of charles munger and warren buffet's ideas. The kindle version both on my phone and on my paperwhite is a continuous, very small image. This book is not friendly for kindle, iphone or any other digital device.
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Quality
If you admire the legacy and the quality of charlie mungers and warren buffettsthinking and decision making this book is a must... Read More
I am really satisfied with the purchase
Its not great at story telling though its the quality of striking me with insight and brilliance thats missing
In regards with the book itself i read an interview of peter and he clearly mentioned it few times that he wrote this book as a... Read More
Shipping
The book is perfect and the shipping was quick
Competitiveness
Youve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head
But it is worth far far far more than the relatively miniscule price and it is worth reading many times
So youve got to have multiple models
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- This product had a total of 341 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 26 2023.
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I have not read many books more than once
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Many mistakes could have been avoided if i read this earlier
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Well the first rule is that you cant really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang em back
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If the facts dont hang together on a latticework of theory you dont have them in a usable form
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You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered
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Well they fail in school and in life
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Well the first rule is that youve got to have multiple models because if you just have one or two that youre using the nature of human psychology is such that youll torture reality so that it fits your models or at least youll think it does
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You become the equivalent of a chiropractor who of course is the great
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