The Enchanted Loom reviews Michael Lewis's book, The Undoing Project

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Thread 1:

The imagination obeys rules: the rules of undoing. One rule is that the more items there are to undo in order to create some alternative reality, the less likely the mind is to undo them.

(pg. 303)

Thread 2:

People predict very little and explain everything.

(pg. 197)

Thread 3:

People live under uncertainty whether they like it or not.

(pg. 197)

Thread 4:

People accept any explanation so long as it fits the facts.

(pg. 197)

Thread 5:

People often work hard to obtain information they already have and avoid new knowledge.

(pg. 197)

Thread 6:

Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic Universe.

(pg. 197)

Thread 7:

Everything that has already happened must have been inevitable.

(pg. 197)

Thread 8:

Unless you are kicking yourself once a month for throwing something away, you are not throwing enough away.

(pg. 196)

Thread 9:

We are exposed to a lifetime schedule in which we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

(pg. 203)

Thread 10:

Most advances in science come not from eureka moments, but from “hmmm, that’s funny.”

(pg. 205)

Thread 11:

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see, but to think what no one else has ever thought.

(pg. 230)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://design-milk.com/ctrl-v-ctrl-x-ctrl-z/

Slide 12 - https://imgflip.com/i/yjljs

Slide 2 - http://www.greatertalent.com/michaellewis/

Slide 6 - http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-magic-and-illusion

Slide 5 - http://bit.ly/2iDiPpU

Slide 11 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/The-Punishment-14000876

Slide 10 - http://omachauling.com/junk-removal.htm

Slide 15 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 9 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Apocalypse-reworked-201799413

Slide 8 - http://bit.ly/2iDlX58

Slide 7 - http://thepoliticalinformer.com/status-quo-bias/

Slide 4 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Optical-Illusion-348543428

Slide 13 - http://bit.ly/2knIIhZ

Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

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