Overconfidence Bias: Malcolm Gladwell on how experts can be more dangerous than idiots
erconfidence Bias Is A Bigger Problem Than You Know In this video, Malcolm Gladwell raises serious issues about the danger of overconfidence bias among experts and why it may be more dangerous than you think. Looks like the bravado of smart people can sometimes be far more problematic than the incompetence of stupid people. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the bestsellers Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point. Join 45K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: What…
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What’s it take to free yourself of bad habits?
is is a fantastic interview with Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit. It's incredibly dense with great information. Highly recommended: Don't have time to watch the full 40 minute interview? Here's a 4 minute version. The book is The Power of Habit and it’s probably the best thing I’ve read this year. More on breaking, changing and creating habits here. Join over 90,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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Introverts Or Extroverts: Here’s Which One Has It Better
the US, it's always seemed like the answer was "extrovert." Being social is lauded and most people seem skeptical of all that skulking about that introverts do. There's no doubt research has shown a number of advantages to being a people person. Plenty of studies say extroverts are happier: We compared the upper 10% of consistently very happy people with average and very unhappy people. The very happy people were highly social, and had stronger romantic and other social…
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Who’s to blame for this mess?
bsp; Trick question. Don't blame. It makes you less able to deal with the problems of life. Via The Blame Game: How the Hidden Rules of Credit and Blame Determine Our Success or Failure: A study conducted by Harvard Medical School psychiatrist George Valliant showed that people who "projected," or blamed others for their misfortunes, were much less able to adjust to the changing events in their lives... In another study, conducted by psychiatrist Leslie Phillips at Worcester State Hospital, it was found…
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Dan Ariely explains why we lie and how we justify our actions:
eat interview with Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves: Don't have time to watch the full 40 minute interview? I posted about Ariely's recent book "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty" here. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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Malcolm Gladwell asks “Is it better to come in first… or third?”
lcolm Gladwell gives an insight-rich talk about innovation, telling stories of Israeli drone wars, Steve Jobs and why he doesn't think China will be #1 in the 21st century. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the bestsellers Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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Is there a connection between eating chocolate and winning a Nobel Prize?
bsp; Countries that eat more chocolate win more Nobel Prizes. Chocolate has been shown to increase smarts so there could be a connection. Correlation, causation, whatever -- it's an excuse to eat chocolate, right? Via The New England Journal of Medicine: There was a close, significant linear correlation (r=0.791, P<0.0001) between chocolate consumption per capita and the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million persons in a total of 23 countries (Figure 1). When recalculated with the exclusion of Sweden, the…
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What can Whac-a-Mole teach you about the ability to focus?
bsp; When a visual search is simple, an active style works best. When the search is complex and challenging (like Whac-a-Mole), a passive approach wins out. The inventor of the game, Aaron Fetcher, explains. (And research backs him up.) Via The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success: You might think that the best strategy for playing Whac-a-Mole would be to stay vigilant and keenly focused so that as a mole peeks its head up, you're ready…
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