My Chat with Economist Dr. Robert Frank, Author of Success and Luck (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_377)
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🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys continuing the tradition of unbelievable guests. I don't know how I |
| 0:05.5 | convinced these guys to come on my show and speak to me, but I managed to |
| 0:09.0 | convince this gentleman a former professor not of mine but certainly at Cornell where I trained with a whole bunch of other very famous behavioral |
| 0:16.9 | decision theorists professor Bob Frank how you doing sir I'm doing great God nice to be with you so nice to talk to you so I wanted to just give people a bit of a sense of your biography |
| 0:27.1 | It'll take a couple of hours to go through the whole thing so we'll we'll we'll condense into about a minute |
| 0:31.6 | So you're the Henrietta Johnson Lewis Professor of Management |
| 0:35.7 | and Professor of Economics at the Johnson Graduate |
| 0:38.8 | School of Management at Cornell. |
| 0:40.9 | Some of your books include, I'm not going to list some of your textbooks, but some of your popular books, the economic naturalist, passions within reasons, the winner-take-all society, fantastic book, the Darwin economy, something that we could talk about given my own |
| 0:56.4 | evolutionary bent, luxury fever, what price the moral high ground falling behind, the right pond and the book that was just released |
| 1:06.6 | your latest book success and luck good fortune and the myth of meritocracy. |
| 1:12.1 | Wow you've been busy. |
| 1:14.8 | So I thought we'd start with your latest book |
| 1:17.8 | and then we will sort of head off into other areas. |
| 1:21.0 | Maybe you could begin by telling us |
| 1:22.4 | what is the central premise of your latest book. |
| 1:26.0 | As you said, God, the title is Success and Luck and it's about the relationship between those two |
| 1:31.4 | concepts and one of the themes is that successful people |
| 1:37.0 | tend to grossly underestimate the role of chance events in their life trajectories. |
| 1:43.6 | I think we all tend to do that, but it's important for policy purposes, especially |
| 1:48.8 | that successful people are even more prone than others to do that. |
| 1:53.0 | And it's not, I don't think, because they're mean-spirited or trying to lay claim to more money than they're entitled to. |
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