Reading The 5 Books: An Outsider

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Finance is looked upon as a true technical and analytic subject by outsiders, and even by some insiders, but is it only just that? Does the finance professionals prefer to be seen as true math geniuses, when in reality luck has played a way bigger role in their successes? How do biases, probabilities, habits, our mind and other disciplines factor in? How about luck? Not only is the financial sector truly a summation of those factors, but other sectors and aspects of our daily lives are also subject to those forces. While we may not always understand how the world is shaped around us, reading the 5 books provides a way to be an outsider in our own discipline, how great! Through Hagstrom, Kahneman, Taleb, Haidt, and Duhigg, there is a very real

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