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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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As the author and podcast host of “Freakonomics,” Stephen Dubner spends a lot of time thinking about and studying what goes into good decision-making. He gives Sam tips on balancing logic with emotion, offers ways to use your imagination to help you make a choice, and defends the coin-flip method.
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1:10.2 | asking my guests for their life-changing choices. But today we are taking a step back |
1:16.2 | and looking at not just how we make good decisions, but how we make any decisions. So meta, I know. And that got me thinking about my decision process. Am I happy with it? Is it effective? Am I actually good at making decisions? Now if you have ever asked me a |
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