i tolkg: Tradition is something i think modern t very uncomfortable with. Most of the time, in an historic past, you married who your parents told you. You had children because it wasn't even a option. And so we're in this new world as human beings, and dumb the idea of using tradition to solve these problems is very unappealing to most people. But many traditions are there because they have stood the test of time for people who had skin in the game. It's not a bad place to start. Maybe you shouldn't listen to it the way people did for two thousand, three thousand years, but maybe youought at least give it benefit of the doubt
Why do people eat too much even when they don't want to? Why are there so many bad managers? And why might anti-vaxxers be useful? Luca Dellanna, author of The Control Heuristic, thinks the answers to all of these questions are in our heads, or rather in our basal ganglia. Dellanna talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why both brains and employees need immediate feedback, why we're wired to believe our best guesses, and why addiction is just our brain's way of making sure we survive.