Privilege Your Principles

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Sooe: What do you mean by privilege your principles? And in practical terms, how might that hows? How might some one cultivate being the sort of person that privileges their principles? Sooe. Before i wrote this book, i actually found a wallet on the street in san francisco in the tender line. But it wasn't going to be easy to find that person. It's good to be a person who returns, who returns wallets. I'll now tell the theodora story, and we'll talk about privileging our Principles.

Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm can tell us whether we should head there in the first place. To economist Russ Roberts, the reason is simple: Humans are dynamic and aspirational beings. When it comes to making life's big decisions, from what to study to whom to marry or whether to have a child, it's not always us doing the deciding, he argues, but rather the people we want to be. Join the host of EconTalk, the president of Shalem College, and the author of the new book Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions that Define Us, as he speaks with friend and EconTalk favorite Michael Munger about why the traditional economic models for decision making can lead us astray--and why life should be less about solving problems than embracing possibilities.