35,000 decisions ⚾
"Don't be afraid to challenge the status quo, even if it means going against popular opinion."
—Oakland A's manager Billy Beane
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"The Undoing Project" became another bestselling book for journalist Michael Lewis when it was published in 2017.
It was a major capstone to Lewis's career. Central to the story is the eternally fraught relationship between our intuitive, unconscious minds and our analytical, consciously aware minds.
- The average human being makes 35,000 decisions each day. How many of those do you remember making?
Experts say that most of our cognition occurs in the subconscious, intuitive mind.
Psychology and behavioral science play starring roles in Michael Lewis's other books, too.
Arguably his best-known book is "Moneyball." $$$
It tells the true story of how the Oakland A's major league baseball team hired a Yale economics graduate in a moment of desperation.
They didn't have the money other teams did for recruiting players.
Recruitment scouts for the A's often relied on their intuition and past experiences to make decisions and judgments.
But that led to folly. In one mind-boggling example, A's recruiters judged the confidence of players based on whether they had "an ugly girlfriend."
Other recruits were turned away for having an unusual throwing style or for being too old.
- next time "The Oakland A's baseball team identified unconventional talent."
- listening The Replacements "Bastards of Young"
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