I Want to Be in Chicago, and Marriage Is Going Magically to Trans Transport Me There

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Many people have suggested you and i get ied in your acts for just that reason. I think we've been happily married for 60 year, very well. That eds andand they were consecutive. And it was a problem of becoming so i worry mother. You don't really know about hethis is going to work until three years or five years down. The eharmony problem looks like the secretary problem in the sense that i sample some possible spouses and then i pick the best one. But that's not the way eharmony works. It actually takes intentionality. So i i w yow you use the example of going to chicago. Well, if i think that

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.