Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition | Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner who transformed our understanding of the biases that cloud our thinking. In this conversation, he and Adam explore when to trust our intuition and when to second-guess it. Danny explains how he finds joy in being wrong, spells out steps to smarter interviewing, and reveals how he—the master decoder of decision-making—makes decisions. Find the transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GDK The TED Audio Collective videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

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Jan 12, 202336mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: January 12, 2023
Duration: 36m
Channel: Re:Thinking with Adam Grant
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner who transformed our understanding of the biases that cloud our thinking. In this conversation, he and Adam explore when to trust our intuition and when to second-guess it. Danny explains how he finds joy in being wrong, spells out steps to smarter interviewing, and reveals how he—the master decoder of decision-making—makes decisions. Find the transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GDK The TED Audio Collective videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

SPEAKERS

Adam Grant
host
Organizational psychologist and host of Re:Thinking / Taken for Granted.
Daniel Kahneman
guest
Psychologist and Nobel Prize–winning researcher known for work on judgment and decision-making, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and coauthor of Noise.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, featuring Adam Grant and Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition | Re:Thinking with Adam Grant explores kahneman on reducing misery, delaying intuition, and learning joyfully from errors Kahneman argues societal progress should prioritize reducing misery over maximizing happiness, because the people who suffer most are a smaller, distinct group and policy should target them directly.

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