518: Why to Never Go With Your Gut with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky explains why we often make disastrous decisions—and how to make smarter ones.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The biggest decision-making mistake people make.
2) Three handy debiasing techniques.
3) Five questions to guide everyday decisions.
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— ABOUT GLEB —
Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky protects leaders from disasters by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky writes for Inc., Time, and CNBC. A best-selling author, his new book, available on Amazon and in book stores everywhere, is Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.
• Gleb’s website: DisasterAvoidanceExperts.com
• Gleb’s email: gleb@disasteravoidanceexperts.com
• Gleb’s LinkedIn: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
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• Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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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 McChitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 518 |
| 0:21.8 | with Dr. Gleb Saperski. |
| 0:23.8 | Gleb is talking about why not to go with your gut |
| 0:26.6 | and how to avoid making disastrous decisions. |
| 0:29.6 | So I'm thankful for him and I'm thankful for you |
| 0:32.1 | as Thanksgiving is roughly now wish based on the release of this episode. |
| 0:36.6 | You might have a listening it months to the future that's cool too so thank you. I appreciate you even if you went to the University of Michigan. |
| 0:44.7 | We're really harsh on Michigan folks in this episode. |
| 0:49.1 | And I just want to let you know. |
| 0:51.0 | It's all in good fun. We're just razzing you and tweaking you a little bit. |
| 0:55.0 | They're great people that I really respect and I like from the University of Michigan and |
| 1:01.6 | we're just joking around here a little bit so all in good fun |
| 1:06.0 | because we're pretty harsh anyway you're gonna learn one the biggest decision to make you |
| 1:10.4 | mistake people make two three handy debasing techniques, and three, five questions to guide everyday decisions. |
| 1:17.0 | So if you want to see the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums we reference, |
| 1:21.0 | it's over at awesome at your job.com slash F-5-18 or just tap the expansion of this episode note or |
| 1:27.6 | description in your podcast at-player and tap that. All the faster. |
| 1:31.5 | Here's Gleb's story. He's known as the disaster |
| 1:34.1 | avoidance expert. Dr. Gleb Saperski protects leaders from disasters by |
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