Seth Kavnett: If you hook up with a happy person, there's a better chance you guys will make it. The other factors that he says predict happiness in a long-term relationship are a growth mindset in your partner. He asks if we should hand them a personality quiz and try to quickly figure out if they meet these criteria. Come back tomorrow to hear Seth share what the data tells us about parenting.
Big data. Baseball managers use it to win pennants. Stockbrokers use it to beat the market. And now you can use it to get what you really want in life. That's according to a new book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz called Don't Trust Your Gut.
When faced with difficult life decisions-like "Who should I marry?" and "How can I avoid screwing up my kids?"-we typically follow our intuition. The problem is that our intuition is often wrong. The smarter move, Seth says, is to comb through millions of data points to find statistically significant answers. But who has time for that, not to mention the technical know-how? Well, Seth does. And this week on the show, he'll share the answers he found, starting with the surprising traits you should look for when searching for your soulmate.