766 - How to Test if You're Rational with Robyn and Jay The Engineer

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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A couple of episodes ago, I have Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author, on to talk about this new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. And at the end of this book, there are quizzes to see if you're system 1 or system 2 in terms of Rationality. Naturally, I have to try this quiz on people, so I have my wife, Robyn, and Jay The Engineer on to see how they do on the quiz! We also talked about some of the different biases. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.0	Two weeks ago we had on Stephen Pinker talking about what it means to be a rational person
0:20.8	and how most people are irrational.
0:22.4	So there's a test that I just gave Jay the producer and Robin, my wife.
0:28.4	It's called the cognitive reflection test and it's a test to see how rational you are.
0:34.5	So let's see how they do.
0:38.7	Yeah, make sure you didn't touch the microphone too much.
0:49.9	I like touching my microphone.
0:53.7	Stop touching touch.
0:54.7	You're not like, you're just kidding.
0:56.5	I know.
0:57.5	It's not rational to touch your microphone.
0:59.7	It's not rational to touch my microphone but a lot of things I do are irrational.
1:03.5	We are all as pointed out by Stephen Pinker last week on our podcast about rationality.
1:09.5	We are all pretty much irrational creatures and that's a good thing.
1:14.2	So Daniel Coniman famously won the Nobel Prize for doing research on cognitive biases.
1:22.0	The brain takes in many situations where it uses fast intuitive thinking as opposed to thoughtful,
1:32.3	calculated reflective thinking.
1:34.4	So that's he called it system one thinking which is more intuitive and very fast and system
1:40.2	two which is longer term or maybe it's the other way around.
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