Steve Levitt
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962 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Steve Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And honestly, they were almost all young adult fiction because mostly I just read the books that my kids were reading, like Harry Potter and the Twilight series.
I hadn't read anything that was...
about science or about psychology since I was in grad school, maybe.
And it's been great for me to just spend time reading what smart people are thinking and then having to pull that all together with the discipline of deadlines.
The other thing that's been great for me about Pima is I have almost no deadlines in my life.
And really my entire adult life, I haven't had deadlines because as an academic, you almost never have to do anything online.
on time, but it's the tension that comes with actually having deadlines and feeling pressure and knowing you have to deliver.
That's been a good source of discipline for me, a good reminder of what you can do.
I would frequently be up until three or four in the morning trying to pull together some kind of set of themes I'd be able to talk with people about.
Oh, I couldn't do it.
It was ruining my life when I had to do it every week.
Well, every week was bad because at first it was kind of exciting, but I really, maybe because I'm insecure or maybe because I felt such an obligation to these amazing guests to do a good job, but I would invest.
I learned it from you, really.
I learned it from you to invest an enormous amount of time in preparation for these interviews.
So,
If somebody had written books, I'd tried to read every one of their books.
And I tried to read their academic articles and figure out whatever I could about their personal life.
It was a real tax on my time.
And doing it every week, it felt like a pressure cooker.
But every other week was perfect because it was just enough to make me feel like I always had a little pressure on me, but not so much that I had to be grumpy and mean to everyone else in my life to get it done.
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