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Books like The Success Equation

The Success Equation by Michael Mauboussin is about luck vs. skill, decision-making, statistics. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Thinking, Fast and Slow

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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.

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

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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.

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  3. The Signal and the Noise
    The Signal and the Noise

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    The Signal and the Noise

    Nate Silver · Science

    Nate Silver made his reputation predicting baseball statistics and then political elections.

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  4. Fooled by Randomness
    Fooled by Randomness

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    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology

    Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.

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  5. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
    Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

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    Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

    Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein · Psychology

    Bias gets most of the attention in discussions of judgment error.

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  6. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

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