No matter how hard managers try to make you “hurry up”, they cannot change your thinking rate – and as it turns out, nor can you. Trying to “think faster” can result in cutting corners, or sacrificing quality for quantity; “it doesn’t matter how many decisions you make if they’re not good ones.” Farnam Street opposes, and indeed tries to reverse, rushed thinking, instead suggesting that a slower decision making process holds a net benefit over the long run. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
