378: Steven Johnson | How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) is the best-selling author of 11 books on the intersection of science, technology, and personal experience, including Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most. He also hosts the Fighting Coronavirus podcast on Wondery.
What We Discuss with Steven Johnson:- In a world where we might put more thought into brunch than buying a house, what types of decisions warrant a "decision-making process?"
- Why we can do better than relying on the old pros and cons list that Ben Franklin, Charles Darwin, and our parents once found useful.
- Uniform phases of decision-making that we can teach, learn, and apply to tailor-made decisions of varying complexity.
- How AI might help us augment decision-making processes involving probability.
- The premortem: why planning as if a future event has already happened might result in better decisions than just asking ourselves "what if?"
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:02.4 | The assessments have all been done and it's like you should wear the seatbelt |
| 0:05.8 | and you know you should buy a car with their bags because this is good and you should do the |
| 0:09.6 | and you shouldn't drink and drive and all we've figured out the odds of all these things over time |
| 0:13.4 | but then when you get a unique situation like the one we're in with COVID-19 suddenly you realize |
| 0:19.8 | you have to run all those kind of risks assessments on your own or the experts are trying as best |
| 0:25.3 | they can but nobody knows yet. Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbanger. On the Jordan Harbanger |
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| 0:48.1 | We want you to become a better thinker especially a better decision maker and critical thinker. |
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| 1:03.2 | so if you're smart and you like to learn and improve you're going to be right at home here with us. |
| 1:08.7 | Rarely do we put a lot of thought into making decisions I know it seems like we do or should |
| 1:13.2 | but for most of us we just ruminate on something worry about random variables until eventually |
| 1:18.4 | coming to a decision or perhaps you're like me and you bust out a pro and cons list and then you |
| 1:23.3 | ignore everything you wrote down and we think we really thought it out. As it turns out the process |
| 1:28.3 | of making decisions hasn't really evolved much in I don't know 100 years. Today Steven Johnson |
| 1:33.6 | author of far-sighted is going to help us hone the process and get better at the skill of decision |
| 1:39.6 | making. If you want to know how I manage the book guests like this best selling authors thinkers |
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