Tim Molnar

Once we find someone who's better than that baseline, that's our person to settle down with. So this is a riddle that's been likened in a dating context in different places. Logan Urie talks about it in her book. I've heard it talked about in Algorithms to Live By. Again, it's an old math riddle. I think maybe Hannah Fry does a TED Talk on it. And my thought was it's an interesting...

Once we find someone who's better than that baseline, that's our person to settle down with. So this is a riddle that's been likened in a dating context in different places. Logan Urie talks about it in her book. I've heard it talked about in Algorithms to Live By. Again, it's an old math riddle. I think maybe Hannah Fry does a TED Talk on it. And my thought was it's an interesting...

Corollary for the dating world, but there are a lot of simplifying assumptions that don't actually make it a great fit My thought is if you have a Qualified pool of a hundred people you know you've decided great I've swiped with this person they meet all these like initial criteria that I might have and we go and meet on a date within a group of you know 100 or 200 or whatever it might be people here

Corollary for the dating world, but there are a lot of simplifying assumptions that don't actually make it a great fit My thought is if you have a Qualified pool of a hundred people you know you've decided great I've swiped with this person they meet all these like initial criteria that I might have and we go and meet on a date within a group of you know 100 or 200 or whatever it might be people here

Corollary for the dating world, but there are a lot of simplifying assumptions that don't actually make it a great fit My thought is if you have a Qualified pool of a hundred people you know you've decided great I've swiped with this person they meet all these like initial criteria that I might have and we go and meet on a date within a group of you know 100 or 200 or whatever it might be people here

there are probably quite a few who you could choose to build a great relationship with and say, great, as soon as I find someone who makes me feel awesome about myself, who is caring and generous, that's someone where I really wanna invest and decide that I'm gonna make this relationship work.

there are probably quite a few who you could choose to build a great relationship with and say, great, as soon as I find someone who makes me feel awesome about myself, who is caring and generous, that's someone where I really wanna invest and decide that I'm gonna make this relationship work.

there are probably quite a few who you could choose to build a great relationship with and say, great, as soon as I find someone who makes me feel awesome about myself, who is caring and generous, that's someone where I really wanna invest and decide that I'm gonna make this relationship work.

And so I came up with a variation to this, which comes from this idea of being what's called a satisficer. So when we make decisions, there are a couple different ways we can go about making decisions. One is to be a maximizer. Maximizers are the people who want to optimize for the best outcome, the absolute best.

And so I came up with a variation to this, which comes from this idea of being what's called a satisficer. So when we make decisions, there are a couple different ways we can go about making decisions. One is to be a maximizer. Maximizers are the people who want to optimize for the best outcome, the absolute best.

And so I came up with a variation to this, which comes from this idea of being what's called a satisficer. So when we make decisions, there are a couple different ways we can go about making decisions. One is to be a maximizer. Maximizers are the people who want to optimize for the best outcome, the absolute best.

um you know empirical best outcome so they're shopping for a car and they're going to test drive you know 130 different cars before they make a decision as opposed to saying great once i get one that you know has a pretty good safety record and has a decent you know 10-year 100 000 mile warranty and is able to accelerate as fast as i need to to you know merge onto the highway

um you know empirical best outcome so they're shopping for a car and they're going to test drive you know 130 different cars before they make a decision as opposed to saying great once i get one that you know has a pretty good safety record and has a decent you know 10-year 100 000 mile warranty and is able to accelerate as fast as i need to to you know merge onto the highway

um you know empirical best outcome so they're shopping for a car and they're going to test drive you know 130 different cars before they make a decision as opposed to saying great once i get one that you know has a pretty good safety record and has a decent you know 10-year 100 000 mile warranty and is able to accelerate as fast as i need to to you know merge onto the highway

It may not be the absolute best one, but it's a really good choice, and I'm going to choose to be happy with that decision. And so that is sort of the maximizing versus satisficing idea.

It may not be the absolute best one, but it's a really good choice, and I'm going to choose to be happy with that decision. And so that is sort of the maximizing versus satisficing idea.

It may not be the absolute best one, but it's a really good choice, and I'm going to choose to be happy with that decision. And so that is sort of the maximizing versus satisficing idea.

The maximizer wants to find the objectively best choice out of all 130 cars, and the satisficer says, let me set a few criteria, and then once I find that, and maybe it's after test driving seven cars, great, I'm going to go ahead and put the down payment on and make it official. And so what the research shows us is that the satisficers are much more happy with their decisions.

The maximizer wants to find the objectively best choice out of all 130 cars, and the satisficer says, let me set a few criteria, and then once I find that, and maybe it's after test driving seven cars, great, I'm going to go ahead and put the down payment on and make it official. And so what the research shows us is that the satisficers are much more happy with their decisions.

The maximizer wants to find the objectively best choice out of all 130 cars, and the satisficer says, let me set a few criteria, and then once I find that, and maybe it's after test driving seven cars, great, I'm going to go ahead and put the down payment on and make it official. And so what the research shows us is that the satisficers are much more happy with their decisions.