“The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure” by Ian H. Robertson is a fascinating book that explores how winning affects our behaviour, pushing us to achieve success. In the book, Robertson often mentions his research and other studies to explain how success and failure can alter our brain chemistry, making us more confident […]
Remember how often you have done something that felt like going against yourself. Visualize a situation where you have been taken hostage by emotions, led by a blind force that drove your mind through future regrets -it could be a life-changing decision or a daily choice. It has happened to everyone to feel like they […]
Flow is “the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it”.
In their book Nicola Gennaioli, professor of finance at Bocconi University, and Andrei Shleifer, professor of economics at Harvard University “A Crisis of Beliefs” give the reader a novel interpretation of the 2008 crisis as well as the tools to understand financial instability on a larger scale. This book is a summary of the authors’ research and it is effective because it gives the possibility to almost everyone […]
Life is made of decisions: whether about your career path, health insurance, marriage, the next brand of toothpaste you want to try or whatever else, you simply cannot avoid them. What professors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein address in Nudge is the possibility of improving people’s choices by acting on the design of the question. It is just as […]
Thinking, Fast and Slow is the book that every behavioural economics enthusiast should read at least once in their lifetime. The author is nothing less than Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist awarded with the Nobel prize in economics in 2002 for his work on human judgement and decision making under uncertainty, which combines psychological research with […]
Review of “Scarcity”
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