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Predictably Irrational

Predictably Irrational Even though I had created a tumblr account promptly after Yahoo acquired it in June 2011, I had done nothing much about it since. This is clearly nothing new, I have always basked in the glory of total laziness and procrastination. In fact, one could even argue that I had become completely predictable to be that, however irrational that is. And so, when I just finished this amazing book by Dan Ariely, I thought this was a wonderful option to open the account, as we say in Cricket parlance. Predictably Irrational is an extremely well written book in the same genre of Freakonomics and even some Gladwell books, but what provides authenticity and genuineness to this compilation is that these are based on experiments conducted by the author (and his collaborators) himself, not relying on some possibly dubitable study or observations. The basic premise of this book is that we, as humans, are not as rational as we would love to believe. And to make things more...