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Why We Make Bad Decisions with Todd Rose

2024/10/3
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The Atlas Society Presents - The Atlas Society Asks

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Join CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 222nd episode for The Atlas Society Asks where she interviews Todd Rose. Todd Rose) is the CEO of the nonpartisan think tank Populace) and a former Harvard faculty member and director of the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at Harvard. His several bestselling books include  *The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness*) and *Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment*), and most recently, *Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions*), which draws on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research to demonstrate how so much of our thinking is informed by faulty assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.