The Value of Tarot Cards

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Anna Kendrick is a self-confessed tarot card player. She says she doesn't live and die by her deck of cards, but there's value in spending disbelief briefly to see if it has any value. Some people make important life decisions based on their tarot decks - that's where she gets concerned.

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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?

Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.

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