What Does That Mean?

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i also quote pt. Hind, the mathematician and poet who gives thiso i has a wonderful little paem about flipping a coin. If you can't come nto sition, flip a coin when it's in the air. You'll what do i hope? What are you hoping for? Heads, ye, tails. Great. In that way you'll know what you i was so excited. I'm going to do that every time. It doesn't matter if it's heads or tails. As it goes up, i think, oh. Or you might wait and see and think, oh, i'm disappointed. That's not what i want to then i know what i want

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.