Ep. 318: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Witnesses, memory, and the legal system
- Expert witness testimony
- "The play that changed poker"
- Mastery in any field
- The connection between chess and memory
- Chabris' interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook
- The stock market, prediction, and forecasting
- The importance of confidence with regard to predictions
- Simple rules vs. complex rules
- Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition
- Memory and the influx of information coming at us
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.9 | The older I get, the more fascinating the subject of memory becomes. |
| 0:41.0 | Because not only do you have to know more, memorize more, think about all the different things that have happened in your life as you continue to age. |
| 0:50.4 | But now we're in the information explosion age. |
| 0:54.6 | So much information. |
| 0:56.6 | Coming out is constantly nonstop. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, ever since Netscape went public, the summer of 1995, it was just game on. |
| 1:09.3 | Here comes the information. |
| 1:14.3 | Now what do you do with it? Now what do you remember? |
| 1:19.5 | How do you access it? How do you use it to make better decisions or worse decisions? |
| 1:28.5 | What types of illusions do our memories create? I love this stuff. |
| 1:32.7 | My guest today also loves this subject. |
| 1:38.7 | Christopher Shabree is an American research psychologist, currently the associate professor of psychology and co-director of the neuroscience program at Union College. |
| 1:43.5 | He is best known as the co-author, along with Daniel Simons, who has appeared in my podcast |
| 1:48.7 | of the bestseller, The Invisible Gorilla. |
| 1:52.0 | Check out the video again on YouTube if you've not seen it. |
| 1:56.0 | Christopher brings a wide take on what's going on in our minds. |
| 2:02.9 | All the different examples and perspectives |
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