Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition
ReThinking
TED
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner who transformed our understanding of the biases that cloud our thinking. In this conversation, he and Adam explore when to trust our intuition and when to second-guess it. Danny explains how he finds joy in being wrong, spells out steps to smarter interviewing, and reveals how he—the master decoder of decision-making—makes decisions. Find the transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GDK
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, worklifers, it's Adam Grant. |
| 0:02.7 | Season 4 is right around the corner, but today I wanted to share a special conversation in our |
| 0:07.0 | taken for granted series. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm talking to Daniel Conneman. |
| 0:11.6 | Danny won a Nobel Prize in Economics. |
| 0:14.0 | He's been named one of the most influential economists in the world. |
| 0:17.1 | But he's not on board with that. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh, my God, no. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm not a behavioral economist. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm not any kind of economist. |
| 0:26.2 | Danny is one of the great psychologists of our time, |
| 0:29.0 | actually of all time. |
| 0:30.8 | You may have read his influential book, |
| 0:32.4 | Thinking Fast and Slow, |
| 0:33.8 | and he has a new book, |
| 0:35.0 | Noise, coming out later this spring |
| 0:36.9 | with Cass Sunstein and Olivier Sibony. |
| 0:44.7 | This is taken for granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm an organizational psychologist. |
| 0:50.9 | My job is to think again about how we work, lead, and live. This conversation with |
| 0:56.2 | Danny challenged one of my core beliefs about intuition. It also gave me a new way of thinking |
| 1:00.8 | about which ideas are worth pursuing. Since Danny is an expert on decision making, I thought |
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