Best of: Overcoming Learned Helplessness and Understanding Irrational Behavior with Dan Ariely

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In one of our most insightful interviews we've had, Dan Ariely shared his perspectives on suffering, irrational behavior, and how most time management systems allow others to hijack our time. Learn how to overcome your own learned helplessness and how to separate your decisions from the outcomes. Take a listen! Dan Ariely is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight and co-founder of BEworks, Timeful, Genie and Shapa. He is a three-time New York Times best-selling author.

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0:20.4	So the reality is that you know you can make a good decision and then the world can act badly as a consequence of that right so things can happen so think about something like I don't know what poker right in poker you can play the best hand you can and somebody else has a better hand or something else happened or you can say you made a really good
0:26.1	decision to buy a home and then some crisis happened or a hurricane came and so on. So we need to separate our decisions from their outcome.
0:31.8	And we need to focus on our decisions because that's what we have
0:34.1	control over and it's true for lots of things in life right that there's lots of
0:39.2	randomness and you can make the best decision possible and then something else can happen in the world and then the outcome of that decision is bad
0:47.4	But if you made the right decision then it's okay
0:50.8	Right so you if as long as you focus on the decision itself,
0:55.2	I think you're fine.
0:59.4	And the other aspect is to try and gain some control.
1:05.0	Basically say, I could have done things differently.
1:08.0	And this is very tough, right?
1:10.0	Because we have such an instinct of blaming other people and not want to take blame ourselves.
1:15.0	But the thing that the moment you take blame yourself, all of a sudden you say, I could do things differently, right?
1:22.0	And actually, you when sometimes when we
1:25.8	break up romantic relationships so when we fire people and we say you know it's
1:30.1	not you it's just something else you know it's easy to say those things
1:34.7	because you know nobody seems to be at fault but it does increase learn
1:39.9	helplessness because if it's not you then what you do next time.
1:48.1	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most
1:54.6	innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written
1:59.0	best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive
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