#455 The Science Behind Making Better Decisions

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to week 4 of the Squiggly Careers Videobook Club. This week, Helen and Sarah are diving into decision making and discussing Dan Ariely’s Videobook, Predictably Irrational.

Together they talk about the statements that stuck, what surprised them and the action they are going to take as a result of watching.

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(00:00) Introduction

(02:43) Arousal

(03:40) Significant statements

(08:41) Surprising topics

(15:32) Take-away actions

(18:36) The Squiggly Career Videobook and others

(21:02) Final thoughts

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And you're listening to week four and the final week of the Squiggly
0:08.7	Careers Video Book Club. For this whole month Sarah and I have partnered with lit video books
0:14.1	to bring you lots of learning because they have turned books into videos to make it a bit
0:19.6	easier to digest and they've also
0:21.2	kind of make it very memorable with the way that they produce them. You get complete access
0:25.1	to their full library of video books for two months, if you're part of the club, but to give
0:29.1	our community something to focus on, we picked four books, which Sarah and I have watched,
0:34.5	and we've talked to the authors, and we're creating some conversation in the community, just to give us all a little bit of focus. And today's is all about decision making.
0:43.1	So the book is called Predictably Irrational. It is written by Dan Ariely. So in this podcast
0:50.1	episode, Sarah and I are going to be talking about our reflections and insights from watching
0:54.6	the video book. And then tomorrow, you've got me and Dan having a discussion about decision
1:01.0	making actually very, very much in the context of your careers. So I was talking to Dan about,
1:05.5	you know, how do we know if we're making the right decision about what jobs we do, that kind of
1:08.4	thing. So I think tomorrow's episode is very focused on career development and decisions,
1:13.9	whereas the video book generally, Sarah and I'll probably talk about now,
1:17.4	is much broader about decision making in life, really,
1:20.6	and some of the things that can affect our ability to make rational decisions.
1:24.3	It definitely made me think, oh, I think I would have enjoyed a degree in behavioural
1:28.2	economics. Oh, yeah, me too. I was like, oh, these are all really interesting experiments. You learn
1:32.3	about human behaviour. You're definitely convinced by the end of it that we are irrational. And we're
1:38.8	nowhere near as logical as we would all like to think we are or as objective. Like, oh yes, I'm rationalable and reasonable.
1:45.9	And you're like almost accepting that you're not is probably a better starting place.
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