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#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us

2021/2/2
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Shane Parrish：强调自我认知的重要性，指出人们常常不信任自己，并讨论了深思熟虑的规则和欠考虑的规则在决策中的作用。 Sendhil Mullainathan：分享了其父亲的富有创造力的故事，阐述了创造力是创意生成和筛选的结合，并讨论了如何通过建立有效的社会筛选机制来提升创造力。他还分享了在反馈和批评中寻求具体细节的重要性，以及如何通过调整思维模式来避免陷入不温不火的境地。他认为，在创意过程中，应该先专注于大胆创新，然后再进行严谨的筛选，而不是两者同时进行。 Shane Parrish：探讨了如何平衡创意生成和筛选能力，以及如何通过选择合适的反馈来源和寻求细致的批评建议来提升创造力。 Sendhil Mullainathan：分享了其在学习和工作中的一些经验和感悟，包括如何学习新知识，如何避免过度拟合，以及如何将理论知识应用于实际生活。他还讨论了直接记忆和联想记忆的区别，以及如何提升联想记忆能力。他认为，学习新知识的第一个阶段是过度拟合，这有助于新知识的激活和巩固，之后再进行更严谨的筛选和验证。学习新知识的第二个阶段是判断其是否具有生成性，即能否引发后续的思考和行动。

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The conversation begins with a reflection on self-trust and the importance of well-thought-out rules in decision-making.

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Sendhil Mullainathan is the Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Sendhil reflects on lessons he learned from his father, how creativity is the marrying of ideation and filtration, direct versus associative memory, what we can do to get better, rules versus decisions, positioning over predicting, outcome over ego and so much more. Listen now for some ideas that you can put into practice that will help you become a better version of yourself.

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