Books like What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

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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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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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The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel · Economics

The Psychology of Money is Morgan Housel's argument that financial success depends less on technical knowledge than on behavior — specifically, on understanding how your personal history, emotions, and cognitive biases shape every financial decision you make.

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefèvre · Biography

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, the most famous speculator of the early twentieth century, told through the voice of "Larry Livingston." First published in 1923 as a series in the Saturday Evening Post, the book follows Livermore from his teenage years trading in bucket shops — illegal off-exchange betting parlors where customers wagered on price movements — through his multiple fortunes and bankruptcies on Wall Street.

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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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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer · Business

7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.