What You Will Learn

Dan Ariely found that not only are we IRRATIONAL (pick the wrong things that don't give us maximum benefit), we're also PREDICTABLY irrational (we make the same mistakes for the same reasons all the time).

The Upside of Irrationality looks at how these irrationalities impact us at home and at work. 

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Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we aren’t dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse. 

When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the ‘Strategic Warrior’ ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want to solve their issues through intelligent maneuvers—thinking of the long term goals and deciding which fights to avoid and which are inevitable. 

In part 3 of this 3 part series, we look at the strategies:

• Strategy 33 Fact and Fiction
• Strategy 25 occupy the moral high ground
• Strategy 30 Communication strategies
• The 6 fundamental ideals for turning yourself into a strategic warrior

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Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we aren’t dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse. 

When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the ‘Strategic Warrior’ ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want to solve their issues through intelligent maneuvers—thinking of the long term goals and deciding which fights to avoid and which are inevitable. 

In part 2 of this 3 part series, we look at the strategies:

• Pick your battles carefully
• Create a threatening presence
• Lose the battle, win the war
• Know your enemy, the intelligence strategy
• Manoeuvre them into weakness
• Know your enemy

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Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we aren’t dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse. 

When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the ‘Strategic Warrior’ ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want to solve their issues through intelligent maneuvers—thinking of the long term goals and deciding which fights to avoid and which are inevitable. 

In Part 1 of this 3 part series, we look at the strategies:

• Declare war
• Do not fight the last war
• The death ground strategy
• The command and control strategy
• Morale strategies

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There are two numbers you need to know about climate change:

The first is 51 billion and the second is 0. 

51 billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds into the atmosphere every year. Although the figure goes up or down year to year, this is where we are today. Zero, is what we need to aim for. To stop warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change. 

It sounds difficult, because it will be. The world has never done anything quite as big. Every country will need to change how they engage in every activity in modern life – because growing things, industry activities, travelling around places involve greenhouse gases release.

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Think Again by Adam Grant - The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

This book is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency. If you can master the art of rethinking, you'll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life.

Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. It’s a path to learning more from the people around you and living with fewer regrets.

A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to abandon some of your most treasured tools and some of the most cherished parts of your identity .

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the self-told story of a middle-aged man and his son, Chris, who go on a motorcycling trip accompanied by an adult couple. The man describes what it is like to hear the wind moving across the plains, to see birds rise up from marshes next to the road, to ride through a ferocious storm, and to breath the fresh air of a mountain above the tree line. 

The author shows us that we won't live a great life by pursuing the answers through the rational mind only. If we can find a way to accept the abstract art, hippies and out-there thinkers, the world can be saved from the dullness of its mental structures. Paradoxically, accepting the unreasonable could be the lifeblood to our culture that is based on reason.

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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is about understanding the notion of virality.

What exactly triggers the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or the phenomena of “word of mouth”? Gladwell suggests that the best way to understand any of these is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas, products, messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do. The tipping point is that one dramatic moment in an epidemic where everything can change all at once.

The point of all of this is to answer two simple questions that might help us accomplish success in our lives.

• Why is it that some ideas start epidemics and others don't?
• What can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own?

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In 1998, when Oprah was doing an interview for the movie Beloved, a film critic from the Chicago Sun Times asked her a question, “Tell me… What do you know for sure?”

It was such an expected and powerful question that she was at loss for words. But it prompted Oprah to spend months, years, and decades thinking about the possible answers. “What do I know for sure?” became a central question in her life, and she’s explored that question in her monthly column for 14 years. 

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We had the honour of speaking with Daniel Kahneman, author of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' and 'Noise'.

Danny Kahneman won with 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for "having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty”.

His first book, 'Thinking, Fast And Slow', showed us two modes of thinking: System 1 ("fast", intuitive, non-cognitively demanding thinking), and System 2 ("slow", laborious, effortful thinking). It introduced us to many different biases and heuristics, mental shortcuts, that impede our judgement.

His new book, 'Noise', which he co-authored with Cass Sunstein and Olivier Sibony, we were introduced to another flaw in human judgement: Noise.

Biases are the consistent mistakes we make, Noise is the random errors. Both lead to errors in judgment and flaws in thinking.

In this episode, we discuss how we can all think better

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