Gary Klein
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51 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard May 2025
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Freakonomics Radio · How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update) · 9 May 2025
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I don't have a good answer. I'll tell you what I do. What I do is... I become discouraged and depressed for a couple of days. And I say, I never want to do any of that again. And I just, I don't totally repress it, but I wish I could repress it.
And then eventually, after a couple of days, almost always, I realized, you know, if I had done that or if we had arranged that differently, that could have been really exciting. And now I can't wait to do it again.
Yes, I'd like to know what is it showing us.
Fixation is simply going down the wrong path and getting stuck on that path.
He had what was now called in Israel a conception. His conception was Egypt will never attack us until they have air superiority. And they don't have air superiority, and we have nothing to worry about. And he held on to that belief until about two hours before the attack. But his subordinates were seeing all these counter indicators.
They're seeing the Egyptians moving troops and changing configurations at the border. All these signs that indicate an attack is imminent. And Zahra said, this is just a training exercise. But then the subordinates showed there was no sign of training going on. So this was just a cover story. And Zara refused to pass their concerns on higher. And then the attack occurred.
So he was fixated and he wouldn't budge.
I watched one examination where the attending physician, this is the first observation I made, the attending physician is examining the person, the person's describing his condition and seems pretty straightforward. And at a certain point, he says, what's this on your back? Well, it turned out he had had surgery to repair some heart defect. This hadn't been in his history.
And the physician said, wait a minute, let's start over. And he started the whole exam over because he was aware that there might have been implications in what he did that he didn't see because he didn't have this other possibility.
Oh, yes. Yes, they found a much more serious problem that the resident and some of the nurses had missed.
Derek Chauvin, he had a script for how to handle people who were larger and intimidating. And that's as far as he ever got.
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