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Dr. Tali Sharot

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“Right, because exploration is risky, because there is uncertainty, you don't know Risk means that there's a high likelihood of both good and bad and you just don't know where it's going to go. And so that can cause fear. Uncertainty is a state that usually people don't like and don't enjoy. And that's definitely something that keeps you in place. And in fact, one of the kind of points that we make is that it seems that people are not making enough change in their life. That a lot of times if people think about changing something in their life, maybe it's a relationship, maybe it's a profession. It could be something stupid like, you know, the color of your hair or something like that. There is a great, fun little study that was conducted by the Freconomic Stephen Levit.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do something, and then I kind of okay, I had enough with this. Let's try something else. And so variety is kind of a factor that I'm trying to maximize. It's kind of a balance, right? It's exploration and exploitation. So you need to do a little bit of exploitation because you found something that works and something that you're good at. You don't want to just leave it be. But on the other hand, if you just stick with one thing, you may be missing a whole other. Lot of different things”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think it's exploration, right? To move forward, both as an individual and as a society, we have to explore a lot of different things. Some of these things are not necessarily going to give you happiness immediately or for you at all. But a lot of times if you explore a lot of things, you will find something that is going to be very important, maybe for yourself, maybe for our species. I always give kind of, you know, the really simple example of our ancestors leaving Africa to explore the rest of the world, right? They had, I mean, why would they do that? I mean, either they thought there was something better for them to find, right? And it was probably very hard to do. But that's just kind of an example of exploration, right? You're trying different things. And I can see it in my own life, right? I often”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The second is meaning. A lot of things you do because it gives you meaning and it doesn't necessarily give you happiness. Sometimes the two go hand in hand, right? But sometimes it doesn't. So you could do work that's meaningful and it doesn't necessarily give you happiness. Sometimes it does. And then there's a third factor that's also really interesting, which is called a psychological rich life, which is basically variety. A lot of people just do things for diversity, for variety, to try a lot of different things. And again, sometimes it goes hand in hand with meaning and happiness, but sometimes it doesn't. And that kind of explains why many times we make choices that we understand is not necessarily going to gain us more happiness, but it will gain us some other thing, one of these two other things that together, I think, is what brings a good life, right? And that is something I think I changed my mind on, that it's we're not.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, there's one thing that recently is just something that I recently changed my mind on, and that was actually while writing the current book that I'm writing, which I'm writing together with Cass Einstein, who is the co-author of Nudge. And it was actually, in fact, about happiness. Because, and I remember this clearly, I was in a workshop at the LSC, and they did a survey. They asked who thinks that happiness is the most important thing, right? That everything you do is for happiness. And, you know, everyone had to stand on a scale. If you think like it's all about happiness, down here, and if you think it's not at all, stand here. And I was standing here. I was thinking anything that we do, we do for happiness and that all that matters. And while writing this book, actually, we both came to the conclusion, and for me it was a change of mind, that happiness is actually one of three factors that matter. So one is happiness.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very early on I was just really interested in human behavior, right? It's about understanding yourself, but also understanding other people around you. And, you know, I think it's one of the most intriguing topics and the brain was kind of a mysterious kind of organ that is orchestrating all of that. So I think it was just an interest in the world around you and people in it.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I did my undergrad in economics and psychology. In fact, I did that because at the time Nora Science was not available for an undergrad degree in Israel in the whole of the country. So that wasn't even an option. Yes. This was a kind of a long time ago. And then for my PhD, I did cognitive neuroscience, which is neuroscience and psychology mixed together.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Um so I'm I guess I call myself a cognitive neuroscientist which is really a mix of psychology and neuroscience and I mix in behavioral economics as well So it's really a mix of all of that So I'm interested in why human behave the way that they do and why do they have the thoughts that they have and the feelings that they have and I think to understand that you do want to understand what's going on inside the brain But then there's other fields that give you a lot of really interesting insight including psychology and behavioral economics even things like law as well sociology philosophy so it's it's really a kind of interdisciplinary adventure and you”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a really tight link between depression and pessimism. The question becomes well, how do I enhance optimism? So there's a few ways to do it. I was thinking that everything you do is for happiness. The happiness is actually one of three factors that matter. So one is happiness. The second is meaning. And then there's a third factor that's also really interesting, which is...”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's quite something. So, Optimists, this is what they usually do. If something went well, they usually interpret that as something about them that caused this positive outcome. Pessimists do the exact opposite. I got the job, but really because they didn't have any other candidates.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm gonna talk to you about optimism. Kids and children, they're happiest and the most optimistic. Then it goes down and reaches rock bottom in your midlife.”
2023-01-09 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Age 30 to 50 Will Be Your Unhappiest, Here's How To FIX IT! - Dr. Tali Sharot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT