The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us

Feb 2, 2021

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Embrace Risks and Avoid Stagnation

01:13

The Unseen Roots of Ideis Forty Two

01:11

Creativity: bank account for reincarnated people

03:45

The Psychology of Commuting

01:24

Introduction

2min

The Knowledge Project Is Sponsored by Greyhawk Wealth

2min

I Need Your Help Opening a Bank

3min

Creating Ideas and Filtering Ideas

2min

Creating a Filter Mechanism for Baboons

3min

Is It More Effective to Pick People That Don't Want to Work?

2min

Are There Specific Pieces of Feedback That You're Giving to People?

3min

You're Not Taking Risks, Right?

2min

Diky Haser, I'm a Young Kid, and I Love Mangoes

5min

10.

I'm a Computer Science Major, and I've Been a Computer Science Major for a While.

3min

11.

How to Overfit a New Idea

3min

12.

The First Stage of Learning

3min

13.

Is There a Difference Between Direct Match and Associative Match?

2min

14.

Opportunity Cost - What Is It?

3min

15.

The Opportunity Cost Is Always Working on the Right

4min

16.

The Value of Time

4min

17.

How Much Do You Really Enjoy That Asset?

3min

18.

Is This Like a Galilean Relativity Problem?

4min

19.

The Deeper Lesson for Psychology

2min

20.

I'm Not Disciplined, but I Have One Thing I Like About My Life

2min

21.

Everyday Is Much Easier Than Four Days a Week

3min

22.

You Don't Have to Decide

4min

23.

I'm Not Drinking Every Night of the Week, I Cut Off at Nine

2min

24.

The Hardest Thing About Creating Knowledge Is That You Think You Have Good Taste

3min

25.

The Hardest One Is the Feeling of Specialness

2min

26.

I'm Not the Problem. I've Been There for Years, but I Don't Want That.

3min

27.

The Importance of Excuses in Decision Making

2min

28.

Do You Have a True North Outcome?

2min

29.

Is There a Time When You Have to Make a Big Bet?

2min

30.

Do You Know How to Position Yourself for the Future?

3min

31.

The Challenge of Optionality and Positioning

3min

32.

The Positioning Thing Is Going

3min

33.

Is There a Revolution in the Research Discipline of Psychology?

2min

34.

You Shouldn't Be Entitled to an Opinion

2min

35.

The Advantage of the Algaritm Over the Person

2min

36.

The Blind Spot Is the Number One Way to Make Better Decisions

2min

37.

Academics Produce Thermodynamics

2min

38.

What Do You Want People to Say When You're Ninety?

2min

Sendhil Mullainathan is the Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Sendhil reflects on lessons he learned from his father, how creativity is the marrying of ideation and filtration, direct versus associative memory, what we can do to get better, rules versus decisions, positioning over predicting, outcome over ego and so much more. Listen now for some ideas that you can put into practice that will help you become a better version of yourself.

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