416: How to Find Insights Others Miss with Steven Landsburg

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Economist Steven Landsburg offers key questions to push your thinking beyond the obvious to generate helpful insights. You'll Learn: How to jog your brain out of complacent thinking A common assumption that often leads people to make poor decisions Two exercises to help expand your thinking beyond the obvious About Steven: Steven E. Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, where students recently elected him Professor of the Year. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, The Big Questions, two textbooks in economics, and much more. His current research is in the area of quantum game theory. He writes the monthly “Everyday Economics” column in Slate magazine, and has written regularly for Forbes and occasionally for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He appeared as a commentator on the PBS/Turner Broadcasting series “Damn Right”, and has made over 200 appearances on radio and television broadcasts over the past few years. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep416 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 416 with Stephen Landsberg.
0:23.0	Stephen is an economist who shares how to push your thinking beyond the obvious
0:27.0	so you can get some cool insights.
0:29.0	You'll learn one, how to jog your brain out of complacent thinking to a common assumption that often leads people to make poor decisions, and three, two exercises
0:37.5	to help expand your thinking beyond the obvious.
0:40.0	If you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, or the links to items we've referenced,
0:43.4	it's over to all to estimate your job.com, slash F- 416.
0:46.7	Now here's Stephen's story. Stephen E. Landsberg is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester,
0:51.0	where students recently elected him him Professor of the Year.
0:54.0	He's the author of the arm's share economist, fair play, the big questions, two textbooks and economics,
0:59.1	and much more.
0:59.9	His current research is in the area of Quantum Game Theory. He writes the monthly
1:03.4	everyday economics column in Slate magazine and has written regularly for Forbes
1:06.8	and occasionally for the New York Times Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
1:09.8	He has appeared as a commentator on the PBS Twitter Broadcasting series,
1:13.4	Damn Right, and has made over 200 appearances on television and radio broadcasts
1:18.7	over the past few years.
1:20.1	So thanks to Stephen for sharing some time with us and thanks to our sponsors check him out
1:25.3	Now here's Stephen
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