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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

574: How to Navigate Overwhelming Data and Choices to Make Optimal Decisions with Vikram Mansharamani

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Harvard professor Vikram Mansharamani discusses how to break free from blind thinking and make more impactful decisions. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The danger of deferring to experts and technology 

2) Two critical steps for smarter decision-making 

3) How to better predict the future with “prospective hindsight” 


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— ABOUT VIKRAM — 

Financial Bubbles Before They Burst and his latest, THINK FOR YOURSELF: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence. He is a frequent commentator on issues driving disruption in the global business environment, and his ideas and writings have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, the New York Times, Worth, and many other publications. LinkedIn listed him as the #1 Top Voice for Money, Finance, and Economics for both 2015 and 2016, and Worth magazine profiled him as one of the 100 most powerful people in global finance in 2017. In addition to teaching and writing, Mansharamani also advises several Fortune 500 CEOs on how to navigate uncertainty in today's dynamic global business and regulatory environment. He holds a PhD and two master's degrees from MIT as well as a bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 

• Vikram’s book: Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence 

• Vikram’s Twitter: @mansharamani 

• Vikram’s website: Mansharamani.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Term: Satisficing 

• Personality: Daniel Kahneman 

• Personality: Richard Thaler 

• Personality: Amos Tversky 

• Book: Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip Tetlock 

• Book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz 

• Past episode: 453: Why Generalists Succeed and How to Learn Like One with David Epstein 

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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.

0:16.1

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 574 with Vichram

0:25.1

Marsha Romani. We are talking decisions and how to make them optimally and

0:30.4

wisely to survive the overwhelm of data and choices so that you are coming

0:34.8

out with some good clear decisions that make a great impact for you and your career and

0:39.5

your organization your team and the good that you're doing for people, so much fun.

0:44.0

So you'll learn one, the danger of deferring to experts in technology,

0:47.6

two, critical steps for smarter decision-making,

0:51.2

and three, how to better predict the future with prospective

0:54.2

hindsight so you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to

0:57.2

items we've referenced do either tap expand the episode notes show

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description in your podcast app player.

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But if you're not liking what you see so much there, maybe the links aren't clickable.

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That happens on some apps, unfortunately.

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Visit awesome at your job.com slash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvard University and the author of Boom Bustology, spotting financial

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bubbles before they burst and his latest think for yourself restoring common

1:27.8

sense in an age of experts in artificial intelligence. He's a frequent commentator on

1:32.3

issues driving disruption in the global

1:34.5

business environment and his ideas and writings have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, The

1:38.3

New York Times, Worth, and many other publications. LinkedIn listed him as the

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