was a really good trader, and it turns out
that learning how to deal with the
possibility of failure is really good
preparation for a career in the business
world. Today he is the president of
Goldman Sachs.
1 Actually, there’s an even shorter
test. One of the most brilliant modern
psychologists was a man named Amos
Tversky. Tversky was so smart that his
fellow psychologists devised the
“Tversky Intelligence Test”: The faster
you realized Tversky was smarter than
you, the smarter you were. Adam Alter
told me about the Tversky test. He
would score very highly on it.