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The Many Ways Our Irrational Minds Sabotage Our Wealth | Dan Ariely, Behavioral Economist

Wealthion - Be Financially Resilient

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How I Learned to Have a Half-Beard

behavioral economics is about trying to understand what intuitions we have about life that are incorrect and how do we fix them. Dan Cevallos: I was badly burned, most of my body is covered with scars including the right side of my face so this this side just doesn't grow in here. For many years I shaved and then a few years ago I went on a month-long hike. He says he got some notes from people who thanked him for the half-a-beard. The shaving was not just an act of shaving it was also an act of reducing a symmetry which actually had very healing effect.

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