Data-Driven Life Decisions with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Is it always the best decision to trust your gut?

When it’s time to make a simple decision, (where to eat, what car to buy, where to go on vacation) we rely on resources and data at our disposal. We check reviews, compare ratings, and ultimately decide based on available data. So why does it often feel like we're winging it when it comes to bigger life decisions? Am I happy? Am I working on the right things? Is my career on the right path?

What would our lives look like if we took a data driven approach to some of life's bigger questions?

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an author, data scientist, and speaker who studies what we can learn about people from new, internet data sources.

In this episode, Seth discusses why you don’t need to wing it as much as you think you have to.

Seth’s call to action is to observe the data that is readily available to you. Use them as guide posts. If we consider the collective experience of others in our own decision making, we start to understand ourselves on a deeper level; and that is a powerful place to make decisions from.

Seth's Book, "Don't Trust Your Gut" is available now.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis
0:08.5	Live show here on Creative Live. This is the show where I sit down on amazing humans and unpack
0:12.3	their brains with the goal of helping you live your dreams. Now, if you're familiar with the show,
0:16.8	I have for more than a decade been talking about trusting your instincts and leaning into the things that feel good,
0:22.9	make us feel good, and steering clear the things that make us feel bad.
0:26.2	You will understand why when the book called Don't Trust Your Gut was announced by author Seth Stevens Davidowitz.
0:35.4	When that was announced, I had to have him on the show because obviously
0:39.4	that flies in the face of so much that this show was about. He is our guest today and as you
0:45.4	can imagine, we cover a lot of ground on all of life's big questions, things like job and career
0:52.3	choice, how to be successful. What is the data say versus what do we
0:56.3	intuit? How artists and entrepreneurs can break through. There is data that says how this happens,
1:02.7	and then there is the cultural belief on how it happens. The same is true with happiness,
1:07.7	with love life. It's all in this episode. I cannot wait for you to listen,
1:12.4	enjoy, watch wherever you are, whatever you are, whatever, however you're consuming the show.
1:16.0	This is a doozy. I can't wait for you to check it out.
1:20.1	Hey, before we get into the show, I want to give a quick shout out to our sponsor, Creative
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1:30.4	hands down.
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1:36.0	classes in art, photography, filmmaking, design, business, entrepreneurship, and more.
1:42.4	And those classes are taught by the world's top experts,
1:44.8	people who have won Pilature Prizes,
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