How to Be Awesome at Your Job28 Maj 2020

574: How to Navigate Overwhelming Data and Choices to Make Optimal Decisions with Vikram Mansharamani

Harvard professor Vikram Mansharamani discusses how to break free from blind thinking and make more impactful decisions.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The danger of deferring to experts and technology

2) Two critical steps for smarter decision-making

3) How to better predict the future with “prospective hindsight”

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— ABOUT VIKRAM —

Financial Bubbles Before They Burst and his latest, THINK FOR YOURSELF: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence. He is a frequent commentator on issues driving disruption in the global business environment, and his ideas and writings have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, the New York Times, Worth, and many other publications. LinkedIn listed him as the #1 Top Voice for Money, Finance, and Economics for both 2015 and 2016, and Worth magazine profiled him as one of the 100 most powerful people in global finance in 2017. In addition to teaching and writing, Mansharamani also advises several Fortune 500 CEOs on how to navigate uncertainty in today's dynamic global business and regulatory environment. He holds a PhD and two master's degrees from MIT as well as a bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

• Vikram’s book: Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

• Vikram’s Twitter: @mansharamani

• Vikram’s website: Mansharamani.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Term: Satisficing

• Personality: Daniel Kahneman

• Personality: Richard Thaler

• Personality: Amos Tversky

• Book: Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip Tetlock

• Book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz

• Past episode: 453: Why Generalists Succeed and How to Learn Like One with David Epstein

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