About Amos Tversky From “The Undoing Project” P. 97
‘He never knew what time of the day it was,’ said his daughter, Dona. ‘It didn’t matter. He’s living in his own sphere and you just happened to encounter him there.’ He didn’t pretend to be interested in whatever others expected him to be interested in … ‘He just skipped family vacations,’ says his daughter. ‘He’d come if he liked the place. Otherwise he didn’t.’ The children didn’t take it personally: They loved their father and knew that he loved them. ‘He loved people,’ said his son Oren. ‘He just didn’t like social norms.’
‘Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment,’ said his friend Avishai Margalit, ‘and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.’ “