2023-03-09
51 分钟So we all like to think that we are making good decisions, but are we really?
How do we even know?
Do you trust your gut or lean on your analytical mind?
And what about those hidden scripts and noisy inputs that affect nearly every decision we make without us even being aware of any of it?
How do we make better decisions?
Well, today's guest, Daniel Kahneman, is one of the most influential psychologists and thinkers in modern history.
His ideas have literally changed the way we live and work and relate, see the world, make decisions and build solutions, organizations, industries, societies, and lives.
His work has profoundly affected my life and the way that I step into being a creator and somebody who contributes to the world.
Often cited for his remarkable work with Amos Torsky, which explores how we reason and make decisions, his research was in no small way seminal in the creation of the field of behavioral economics.
He has been awarded the Nobel Prize as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Kahneman is a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University, and he holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and others.
His New York Times bestselling book, thinking fast and slow, it sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, and his more recent book, noise a flaw in human judgment.
It explores how unrecognized systemic influences affect our decisions in ways, both rational or not, that remain completely hidden to us and often lead to profound unfairness and inequality.
We talk about key ideas from his research spanning more than six decades, but we also dive into the life experiences that shaped him fascinatingly.
Kahneman's curiosity about humans and all our complexities, and his realization that we are all wildly complex people was sparked as a young jew living with his family in Nazi occupied France during World War two and running for years before fleeing his sometimes harrowing experiences that triggered questions and curiosities that powerfully influence what would become a lifelong devotion to understand why we do the things we do.
We explore those early experiences, and he shares where some of the seeds were really first planted that would later grow into the body of research and work that have changed the lives of so many.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
Just really excited to dive in, excited to, of course, explore some of the ideas and the concepts from the latest book, noise, but also some of the broader moments and ideas.
I tend to be somebody who is just deeply fascinated by the moments and experiences, the seasons of a person's life that's really affected the choices that they make, who they become.