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The Hard Truth About Psychology, Learning New Skills, & Making Mistakes with Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke

The Science of Success

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How to Become Smarter in the Long Run

People are constantly looking for these kind of get smart quick schemes. The way to become smarter, the way to become a better decision maker is to just put in the work. We have a very strange relationship with errors and failure; we don't like to not know stuff. And I think one of the things you have to do if you're going to really broaden that base of experience and do the work you need to do to be smarter is to be willing to tolerate both the knowledge that here's something I know I don't know, and I'm going to work for a long period of time to repair that gap.

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