Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“My interest in psychology was as a way to do philosophy,” he said. “To understand the world by understanding why people, especially… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“counterfactual emotions,” or the feelings that spurred people’s minds to spin alternative realities in order to avoid the pain of the emotion.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“how “intense mental activity hinders perception.” They found that it wasn’t just emotional arousal that altered the size of the pupil: Mental… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
