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Books like The Success Equation
The best books like The Success Equation are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, and The Signal and the Noise. The Success Equation by Michael Mauboussin is about luck vs. skill, decision-making, statistics. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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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.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - The Signal and the Noise
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Nate Silver · Science
Nate Silver made his reputation predicting baseball statistics and then political elections.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
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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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Poor Charlie's Almanack
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Charlie Munger · Business
Poor Charlie's Almanack is a compilation of speeches, essays, and interviews from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
Shares decision-making and investing with The Success Equation.
Read the summary → - The Tao of Charlie Munger
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David Clark · Business
The Tao of Charlie Munger is David Clark's compilation and commentary on the wisdom of Charles T.
Shares decision-making and investing with The Success Equation.
Read the summary → - Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
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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 decision-making and investing with The Success Equation.
Read the summary → - Financial Shenanigans
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Howard M. Schilit · Business
Financial Shenanigans is Howard Schilit's guide to the tricks companies use to make their financial results look better than they are — and how a careful reader of financial statements can spot them before they explode.
Both dig into investing.
Read the summary → - Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher and William Ury · Business
Getting to Yes emerged from the Harvard Negotiation Project in the late 1970s and laid out a method its authors called principled negotiation.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - High Output Management
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.
Both dig into decision-making.
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Books like The Success Equation: quick answers
What are the best books like The Success Equation?
The best books like The Success Equation by Michael Mauboussin are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Success Equation, such as luck vs. skill, decision-making, statistics.
What should I read after The Success Equation?
A natural next read after The Success Equation is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Both dig into decision-making. Other strong choices are Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
What books are similar to The Success Equation by Michael Mauboussin?
The Success Equation centers on luck vs. skill, decision-making, statistics. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
