What if there was a switch you could flip that would make you less afraid? What if you just need more information to help you assess the risks you take? Can you know too much? We don’t pretend to have the answers in this edition of Doing What Works, but we’ll help you ask the right questions -- like whether the stories you tell yourself make you more or less afraid.
Here are your show notes…
“An anecdote is not evidence,” Seth Godin says [https://seths.blog/2021/10/life-by-anecdote/]. “But we often treat it that way.”
Happy City [https://www.amazon.com/Happy-City-Transforming-Through-Design/dp/0374168237], by Charles Montgomery, is about “transforming our lives through urban design.”
Don’t read I’ll Be Gone in the Dark [https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787] in the dark!
Do you wonder how many crimes are being committed in your neighborhood? There’s an app for that [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crime-and-place-the-crime-app/id1045488584].
Warren Buffett says you can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow [https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/09/billionaire-warren-buffett-shares-indispensable-life-advice-he-learned-more-than-40-years-ago.html].
Dan Ariely’s book, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty [https://www.amazon.com/Honest-Truth-About-Dishonesty-Everyone-Especially/dp/0062183613], describes the Simple Model of Rational Crime.