10 Books Everyone Starts but That No One Finishes

<p>In 2014, a mathematician named Jordan Ellenberg calculated which books were the most &ldquo;unfinished of all time&rdquo; using Amazon Kindle data.</p> <p>He named his index the Hawking Index in honor of Stephen Hawking whose book&nbsp;<em>A Brief History of Time&nbsp;</em>was one the most unfinished books ever written.</p> <p>Here are 10 other books no one ever finishes.</p> <h1>1. Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman</h1> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*OW63LIcxSiV3l3je4FRmUQ.png" style="height:467px; width:700px" /></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></p> <p>Daniel Kahneman&rsquo;s masterpiece is a popular scientific account of his (and his friend Amos Tversky)&rsquo;s discovery of more than a hundred psychological biases.</p> <p>Ever heard of&nbsp;<strong>loss aversion</strong>? This bias describes the phenomenon of experiencing more pain when we lose something than experiencing pleasure when we gain the same thing.</p> <p>It was discovered by Kahneman.</p> <p><strong>Anchoring&nbsp;</strong>(relying on the first piece of information we get), the&nbsp;<strong>endowment effect</strong>&nbsp;(people value things more when they own them), the&nbsp;<strong>framing effect</strong>&nbsp;(people make a decision based on issue framing), or the&nbsp;<strong>hindsight bias</strong>&nbsp;are all heuristics tested and found by Kahneman.</p> <p><a href="https://baos.pub/10-books-everyone-starts-but-that-no-one-finishes-7f016cfdb042"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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