Books like Your Money and Your Brain

01

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.

02

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.

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.

04

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

Jim Paul · Business

Jim Paul was a successful commodities trader who made millions quickly, only to lose it all and more in a single catastrophic position.

Both dig into decision-making.

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The Little Book of Behavioral Investing

James Montier · Economics

The Little Book of Behavioral Investing is James Montier's tour through the cognitive traps that cause intelligent, well-intentioned investors to consistently underperform.

Shares behavioral finance and cognitive biases with Your Money and Your Brain.

06

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 Your Money and Your Brain.

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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 Your Money and Your Brain.

08

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Paul Bloom · Psychology

Paul Bloom's argument is not that we should care less about others.

Both dig into decision-making.

09

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · Psychology

Brian Christian is a writer and Tom Griffiths is a cognitive scientist, and together they argue that computer science has worked out rigorous solutions to many of the problems humans face every day — when to stop searching for a better option, how to manage your schedule, how to sort your memory — and that these solutions are both interesting and useful.

Both dig into decision-making.

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology

Blink is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that fast, unconscious decisions — the ones made in the first two seconds of encountering something — are often just as reliable as slow, deliberate analysis, and sometimes more so.

Both dig into decision-making.

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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Antonio Damasio · Psychology

Antonio Damasio is a neurologist at USC whose work challenges the centuries-old idea that reason and emotion are separate faculties, with reason the reliable guide and emotion the unreliable interference.

Both dig into decision-making.

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Dollars and Sense

Dan Ariely · Psychology

Dollars and Sense is Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler's examination of why people consistently make bad financial decisions even when they have the information and intention to do otherwise.

Both dig into decision-making.