Books like The Little Book of Behavioral Investing

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

Both dig into decision-making.

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The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham · Economics

The Intelligent Investor is Benjamin Graham's case that successful investing has less to do with picking the right stocks than with managing your own behavior.

Both dig into behavioral finance.

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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke · Psychology

Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.

Both dig into decision-making.

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli · Psychology

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss entrepreneur and novelist who wrote a series of short newspaper columns on cognitive biases, later collected and expanded into this book.

Both dig into decision-making.

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You Are Not So Smart

David McRaney · Psychology

David McRaney is a journalist who started a blog called "You Are Not So Smart" about self-delusion in 2009, and turned it into this book in 2011.

Both dig into decision-making.

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Your Money and Your Brain

Jason Zweig · Psychology

Jason Zweig, a longtime Wall Street Journal columnist and the editor of Benjamin Graham's annotated edition of The Intelligent Investor, wrote Your Money and Your Brain as a practical guide to the neuroscience and behavioral economics of investing.

Shares behavioral finance and cognitive biases with The Little Book of Behavioral Investing.

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Mindful Leadership

Maria Gonzalez · Business

Mindful Leadership is Maria Gonzalez's argument that mindfulness practice is not a wellness accessory for leaders but a core performance tool.

Shares decision-making and self-awareness with The Little Book of Behavioral Investing.

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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

Peter Bevelin · Philosophy

Seeking Wisdom is Peter Bevelin's distillation of ideas from Charles Darwin, Charlie Munger, and a wide range of scientific and philosophical disciplines — assembled into a practical guide for better thinking and decision-making.

Shares cognitive biases and decision-making with The Little Book of Behavioral Investing.

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The Art of the Good Life

Rolf Dobelli · Philosophy

The Art of the Good Life is Rolf Dobelli's sequel to The Art of Thinking Clearly, applying the same format — short, self-contained chapters on discrete mental tools — to the question of how to construct a life that goes well.

Shares cognitive biases and decision-making with The Little Book of Behavioral Investing.

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Wanting

Luke Burgis · Psychology

Wanting is Luke Burgis's attempt to bring René Girard's theory of mimetic desire to a general audience.

Shares decision-making and self-awareness with The Little Book of Behavioral Investing.

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton G. Malkiel · Economics

A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.

Both dig into behavioral finance.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

Ben Carlson · Economics

A Wealth of Common Sense is Ben Carlson's argument that individual investors outperform most professionals not by being smarter but by doing fewer things and making fewer mistakes.

Both dig into behavioral finance.