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Nudge

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness [Expanded Edition]

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Nudge

Written by: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder.

Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.

Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society.

Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful "choice architecture" can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take - from neither the left nor the right - on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audiobooks to come along in many years.

Included in this recording are a bonus chapter and a Postscript that was added in the paperback edition.

©2009 Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (P)2009 Gildan Media Corp
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Not for a casual reader

If you are not involved in framing public policy or interested in getting involved in it, you won't miss much if you don't read this book. Even if you are interested in public policy, then too a book on behavioral economics like Danny Kahnemans Thinking, Fast and Slow is a better read.

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Conditionally practical advice

This is an excellent book, if you are a policy maker, a 'design architect', or live in the US of A. For the rest of us mortals there is very little information in here that is practically applicable and all of it is condensed in the first part of the book.

Overall I would not recommend to the international audience or casual listener. There are much better titles out there:
Try Atomic habits or even Thinking fast and slow.

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very good

very good detailing on variety of topics of daily life that matter to common man and nudges available to make life of people simple and decisions making easier for a happy domestic and economic living.

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Brilliant by ideas

This book is indeed a great attempt to highlight ideas that are simple but effective enough to bring major changes to behaviour and choices that people make or they be allowed to. Good read.

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Good Reading. Read Thinking Fast Slow before this

Good Read. Helps policy framing in a institutional and govt setup. Elaborate deliberation on a few topics only.

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USA centric

This is a long audio book, enough to lose concentration. The theme around the use of nudges and choice architecture is insightful, but it's application is to USA centric problems. This limits its universal appeal.

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Choose what you want to learn from this book

This book covers a wide domain like health, safety, finance, marriage, education, etc. Before starting, you need to make sure why you are reading this book. You need to understand the importance of Nudging and try to implement it in your life.

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Tones of insights

This provides real world and diverse set of examples on making better decisions with nudges and choice architecture. Narrator’s voice is clean and gives that mentor vibe.

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Bon Appétit

Excellent reading. Would make commute friendlier than usual.

Beautiful content. Ideas simplified to make deepest penetration.

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Overhyped

Did not talk about personal and professional situations .will make you sleep by going on and on about 401 savings etc . Most concepts in the book are quite commonly known now. Wasted my money

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