Steven Levitt
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124 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2014
last heard Jun 2014
Steven Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Essentially, we put out the word that if you had a big problem that you were trying to solve, you could come and we would help you.
We would help you decide whether you should get a tattoo or go on a diet or quit your job or break up with your boyfriend.
Any question you wanted, it didn't matter.
And we tried to, through the questions we had...
help people think differently about the problem so maybe they could come to some resolution.
Many people, even after having done that, still couldn't decide what they should do.
And then we did the ultimate favor to these folks, which is that we decided for them.
We flipped a coin.
Okay, so if you had to decide today, which way are you leaning?
You're leaning no.
Okay.
And have you in the recent past been leaning yes or you've been leaning no the whole time?
Okay.
One thing I think that's helpful in decision making is to first think about if you move in and the worst case scenario and think about how bad that is and how much regret you'll have.
Okay.
And then think about if you don't move in, the worst case scenario and kind of how much regret you have.
Because I think that that's not a crazy way to make decisions is to say, I'm going to take the path where in the worst case, I will have the least regret.
So is there one path or the other which feels incredibly like we would have the most regret?
Okay, so heads is going to be move in, tails is going to be not move in.
You ready?
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