Pap Lőrinc's Reviews > Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Even though it has a very valuable core idea, it was a very difficult read for multiple reasons.

It's way too verbose and way too American.

I was expecting universal personality nudges, not american health industry changes that politicians should do, or 401k changes that Americans should consider, or the Boston system for choosing schools, or how you should allocate your stocks and bonds.

And all these in separate, excruciatingly long and detailed chapters, outlining history and unrelated details, that don't apply to the rest of the world.

Or maybe they do, because the authors did mention other countries as good (Sweden, Finland, Netherlands) or bad (Romania, my home country) examples. However, they were rather used as contrast between countries; what I wanted was contrast between people/behaviors.

The good part can probably be summed up in a few simple sentences:
* most big problems have relatively small weak spots
* find the weak spot and only attack that, not the whole monster
* if you focus on that, big changes are possible

The book could have come up with more real-life examples for this point.