How Pessimism & Optimism Work Together To Produce Brilliance

Dianna Lesage
Betterism
Published in
5 min readMar 23, 2019

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Courtesy of Barbara Tversky

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are the brilliant founders of behavioral economics- but their outlooks on life could not have been more divergent.

Aside from their love of psychology and their Israeli heritage, Amos and Danny had very little in common. However, those that knew the pair when they worked together (through the 70’s into the late 80’s) credit…

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Dianna Lesage
Betterism

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