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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?

Modern Wisdom

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Understanding Emotions Is Incredibly Important

The first thing you have to do is observe your emotional response. What's going to mediate it? What’s going to stop you from being that optimal decision maker? And I mean, this is why, and it comes into not just decision making, but also the way we process information. Russ Roberts, from Econ Talk, was on the show a little while ago, and his new book, Wild Problems, is literally all about this.

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