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Hey listeners, today we're sharing a past episode of rethinking from the archives.

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Hi everyone, it's Adam. Enjoy. organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of

thinking. My guest today is Daniel Kahneman. Danny won a Nobel Prize in

economics. He's been named one of the most influential economists in the world,

but he's not on board with that. Danny is one of the great psychologists of our time,

actually of all time. You may have read his influential book, Thinking Fast and Slow.

This conversation with Danny challenged one of my core beliefs about intuition.

It also gave me a new perspective on which ideas are worth pursuing.

And since Danny's an expert on decision-making,

I thought I'd start by asking about what we're actually trying to accomplish in so many of our choices. You've spent a lot of your career studying happiness and related topics and really for the first time in my career I started to wonder why are we so obsessed with happiness as

psychologists you know I'm I'm all for people leading enjoyable satisfying lives

but if I had to choose I would much rather have people focus on character,

on trying to build their generosity, their integrity, their commitment to justice,

their humility.

And I wonder if you could talk to me a little bit about whether you

think we've lost our way a bit and character has been too little in focus or too far in the

background or whether you think happiness deserves the attention it's gotten?

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