When to Change Your Major (Ep. 163)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about the decision-making involved in changing your major. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: How to Make the Most of Your Language Class (Ep. 162) The Dip, by Seth Godin Derek Sivers' notes on The Dip The sunk cost fallacy So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport Cal Newport - The Roberts Method: A Professor’s Advice for Falling in Love With Your Major Fizzle Derek Sivers' notes on So Good They Can't Ignore You Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:33.4	So Martin, the plot thickens.
0:35.8	What kind of plot is this?
0:37.8	Last time, last time we recorded, we talked about fidget spininner's and then creepily Amazon recommended me
0:46.3	fidget spinner during the podcast oh yes for the recorded file was even on the
0:50.8	internet for it to data mine or whatever. So clearly the robot
0:54.5	overlords are listening to us. But two days ago I got I got an email. They
1:02.0	didn't even like address me by name. They say hi lovely and they want me to
1:07.8	promote their fidget spinner on my YouTube channel.
1:10.5	Yeah, um Amazon told people that we're talking about fidget
1:16.8	spinner already. I guess and then someone's just like ooh more people talk my
1:21.4	fidget spinner's. They sent me a lot of a lot of different examples of
1:26.3	fidget spinner promotional videos I could do but I'm not seeing any vape tricks in here so
1:31.3	clearly they haven't found the best one yeah they don't
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