Name: MCRD San Diego Library Professional Book Club
Start: 2024-10-23T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-23T11:30:00-07:00
Location: MCRD San Diego Library

A virtual discussion of The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis from the Marine Corps Commandant's Professional Reading List
About this Event

Welcome to the MCRD San Diego Library Professional Book Club! October's featured book from the Marine Corps Professional Reading List is The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. An inspiring read for both Marine Corps and civilian professionals, this selection is from the Strategy category of the Professional Reading List.

The Undoing Project is available for checkout at either the MCRD San Diego Library or digitally at https://dodmwrlibraries.org/.

Connect with fellow readers and share your perspectives during the lively online chat. A link to the virtual discussion and supplemental resources will be emailed to all registered participants before the event. An in-person discussion will also be held on October 23, 2024 at 4:30 PM at MCRD San Diego LIbrary.

About the Book: Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.
The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.