![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, however, Kahneman didn’t want to participate in the book. Lewis, who incidentally lives just down the hill in Berkeley from Kahneman, said that after talking with him on and off for a year and a half, he became quietly confident that there was a great story to be had. Those years devoted to conceiving, researching, outlining, interviewing, and writing the book weren’t quite as confrontational as those between Lewis and his beleaguered mother, but they were still their own form of battle. Seven years is also about how long it took Lewis to write The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, his latest book about the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky. I needed an immovable object for seven years, and she provided it.” ![]() “I needed someone to push up against, to shape myself. “When I was 14-years-old, right before the end of the war, in a moment of cool rationality in our family kitchen, my mother turned to me and said, ‘I just want you to know, for the last seven years you've made my life sheer hell.’ And I thought, ‘Yeah, I won.’” He laughs. “My mother is the most sweetly strong-willed person I’ve ever met, and we butted heads for seven years,” Lewis tells me, from his home in Berkeley, California. FROM AGES SEVEN TO 14, Michael Lewis engaged in what he calls a “constant,” “excellent” war with his mother. ![]()
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