Kahneman was just the opposite, wracked by self-doubt. When asked about Kahneman’s book, Thinking ... Not always, to be sure, but they made mistakes far more often than they liked to admit.

"The assumption that individual investors are rational. That leads to serious mistakes." With Prospect Theory, the work for which Kahneman won the Nobel Prize, he proposed a change to the way we think ...

“Conducting an interview is likely to diminish the accuracy of a selection procedure,” he’d later note in his best-selling book ... really cop to their mistakes. Kahneman never stopped ...