Nudge

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness [Expanded Edition]

By: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder.

Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.

Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society.

Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful "choice architecture" can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take - from neither the left nor the right - on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audiobooks to come along in many years.

Included in this recording are a bonus chapter and a Postscript that was added in the paperback edition.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2009 Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein (P)2009 Gildan Media Corp

Slow

Where does Nudge rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I found the book hard to get through, the examples are long and (imho) not very entertaining. It made me lose track of the conclusions.

What didn’t you like about Sean Pratt’s performance?

It's well narrated, but slow. Some people may very well thinks that's a plus though.

What insight do you think you’ll apply from Nudge?

Nudge's message is about marketing and self-improvement alike, and anyone who thinks they take conscious and deliberate actions every day may be shocked by the truth ;-)

interesting listen, proposals, and perspecrives.

worth the listen, good thought starter. interesting to hear proposals from different minds on pressing (and some non-pressing) issues

Worth a listen, but requires a true read too

I appreciated listening the to the book, but the references to the pdf materials and reliance on them makes this a read friendly book.

I learned from it and will purchase it to read on paper to enable me to learn more.

Must Read to improve your life

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend it as we can learn how to be better leaders and make better decisions in a world where decision making is not clear

What did you like best about this story?

The concept of choice arquitecture will be very helpfull for me

What about Sean Pratt’s performance did you like?

Do not recall a particular thing

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Inmersed in a World of Touch Choices

Any additional comments?

It is great reading with practical help

Anpther great Thaler bookm

Thaler does such a great job describing the idiosyncrasies of human behavior. great book!

S different take than other books by Thaler

Decently narrated with fun narrative making you rethink how the world around you works. definitely worth a listen

Very Interesting

A great listen, clearly spoken & presented & of course the content is good. The chapter markings showing on the screen were not in sync with the audio.

Very interesting but at times too dry.

Thank you for your work on this book, I enjoyed most of it. Though as I am not interested in politics a couple of chapters in the middle had to be skipped due to my personal bordum in this area. For the rest my recommendation would be for more stories (fictional is fine) to help explain.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge:)

We’re not as free as we thought we were!

Loved this piece. Opened up my eyes to how things work and why. A form of mindfulness for sure.

way out of date

so much of the financial advice in this book is seriously out of date. some of the psychology still holds true so read it if you enjoy psychology. but skip it if you want to become a better investor or build wealth