How to Teach People About Data

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i went on my first mindfulness a meditation retreat when i was, i think, 60. It wastans formative in many ways and it is a challenge to teach that well. But teaching people to be self aware about their own psychological quirks can be incredibly powerful. And it's part of going back to western civilization. The unexamined life is not worth living - socrates.

Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of Freakonomics. The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career. Levitt says, for him, "economics is about going into the world and finding puzzles and thinking about how understanding incentives or markets might help us get a better grasp of what's really going on."