Overcoming Learned Helplessness and Understanding Irrational Behavior with Dan Ariely
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2014
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
NYT Best-selling author and behavioral economist, Dan Ariely, shares his perspectives on suffering, irrational behavior, and how most time management systems allow others to hijack our time.
In this episode, hear:
- What causes people to be more resilient?
- Overcoming “learned” helplessness
- Language’s impact on our experiences
- Time management and deathbed regrets
- How our intuitions sometimes mislead us
- How most time management systems allow others to hijack our time
Resources:
- Dan’s website
- Dave Logan episode: Using Language to Rewrite the Future
- Happy Money
- Timeful app
- Predictably Irrational – book
NYT Best-selling author and behavioral economist, Dan Ariely, shares his perspectives on suffering, irrational behavior, and how most time management systems allow others to hijack our time.
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