July 28, 2023

#335. Do Marathons Increase Deaths in Host Cities? The Unpredictable Factors Shaping Your Wellbeing - Data, Economics, and Chance with Dr. Bapu Jena

14 minutes

What role does chance play in your health and even your mortality? Find out from economist and physician Dr. Anupam B. Jena, who explores these fascinating questions in his new book Random Acts of Medicine.

Dr. Jena reveals how random events we'd never expect can profoundly shape our wellbeing. Discover insights like:

How marathons unexpectedly increase deaths for non-participants
Why minutes matter so much in heart attacks and other emergencies
'Left-digit bias' and its surprising influence on high-stakes life-or-death decisions
The role of big data in healthcare and the need for big questions.
How to differentiate between signal and noise in data.

This mind-opening conversation will give you a peek into Dr. Jena's creative process for conceiving questions and uncovering hidden insights about medicine. You'll learn how to foster your own curiosity and think in unexpected ways about health.

Tune in now to expand your mind through the unpredictable occurrences that secretly affect us all. The chance events that seem random but are often predictable when viewed through the right lens.

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Quotable moments:

"There's another role that chance plays in our life that is equally random, but is much more predictable. And it also can teach us something sometimes." - Dr. Bapu Jena

"We spend so much time thinking about all the data that we can collect without thinking to ourselves, what are the most interesting applications we can make of the data before we gather it?" - Dr. Bapu Jena

"I think we have plenty of data. And we had plenty of data a few years ago. I think what we're lacking in a lot of respect isn't big data, big questions." - Dr. Bapu Jena

"If you actually want the kind of transformation that allows you to do things with less effort, more ease, more enjoyment, like it's a real part of you. That's why willpower matters." - Dr. Bapu Jena

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