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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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My guest today is celebrated research psychologist Gary Klein who has spent nearly 50 years studying how and why people make the decisions they do.
We discuss naturalistic decision making, the crucial difference between experience and expertise, why some people stagnate and others progress, Cognitive Flexibility Theory, the role of storytelling, surprising ways to gain insights, fixation errors, cognitive biases, mental models, accelerated learning, and so much more.
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0:00.0 | One of the things I've examined is, how do you know who's at expert? |
0:04.7 | And I'd identified about seven or eight criteria. |
0:08.3 | One of the criteria I use from when I engage somebody's expertise is I'll ask them, |
0:14.1 | tell me the last mistake you made. Let's talk about that. |
0:18.2 | After the person says, I can't think of any mistakes. To me, that means, |
0:23.4 | this person may be competent, but a surgery is not an expert. Experts are well aware of their mistakes |
0:30.3 | and their mistakes eat at them. But people who are journey men, many of them stays journey |
0:36.2 | bit because they want to move on and forget about their mistakes. |
0:40.1 | Welcome to the launch project podcast. I'm your host, Shane Parish. |
0:54.4 | The goal of this show is to master the best of what other people have already figured out. |
0:59.6 | To that end, I sit down with people at the top of their game to uncover what they've learned |
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1:28.5 | Today, I'm speaking with Gary Klein. Gary is a research psychologist famous for pioneering the |
1:34.6 | field of naturalistic decision making. I've wanted to geek out with Gary on decision making |
1:40.3 | for years and this conversation did not disappoint. We talk about why some people stagnate at an |
1:46.0 | intermediate skill level and some people reach mastery, cognitive flexibility theory, |
1:51.4 | the role of stories, both the ones we tell ourselves and the ones we tell others. |
1:56.2 | The two ways to make better decisions, gaming better insights and reducing errors and how we can |
2:01.5 | improve at both of them, premortems, shadow boxing and how it helps you learn. Fixation errors, |
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