At The Money: Cass Sunstein on Shifting Your Career Focus

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How do you change careers when you are a highly accomplished, successful attorney? The answer is focus within your profession on what you love doing!

Cass Sunstein, professor at Harvard Law School co-author of the new book, “Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Previously he co-authored “Nudge” with Nobel Laureate Dick Thaler. We discuss his shift in career within the legal profession. .

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1:24.6	unsatisfying job into something that you really love.
1:28.7	A major career change does require some skills, some hard work, and a little bit of luck.
1:35.3	Today we're speaking with Cass Sunstein.
1:37.6	He is a professor at Harvard Law School.
1:40.3	Previously, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
1:45.0	He was an attorney advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice.
1:49.6	He spent over two decades teaching at the University of Chicago Law School before joining Harvard.
1:56.3	But he has also become an author and a student of behavioral economics. So Cass, let's just jump into this.
2:06.2	What was your original career plan? Was the thinking, I'm going to go be an attorney and practice law?
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