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#424 - Steven Pinker - The Problem With Trying To Be Rational
Modern Wisdom
Are You Trying to Imaginate How You'll Feel in the Future?
When faced with an agonizing decision, most people rely too much on their own power of imagination. You're better off finding out how it really did turn out for someone who was faced with that decision and went one way or another. A colleague told me this many years ago when a over dinner when i was at m i tea. At the time, i had a job offer from harvard. I was agonizing oer whether to take it or not. And sure enough, two of my colleagues from he m i t had switched to harvard. They had been poached. And you asked them, do you regret your decision, or did it turn out well? And they both
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