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Tali Sharot

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“How about something simple? How about people just now email turn to someone and tell them they love them? It would not, you know, doesn't completely change your life, but it will change your feelings at that very moment.”
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“The other experiment, Hant Alcott, manipulated whether people were online or not. So he could actually do a control experiment and measure it, right? So he could show causation. This other study that suggests 25% of mental health decline was caused due to social media, that's a correlational result. But, you know, there could be some truth in it.”
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“Is only correlational, right? But he's claiming that using statistical methods, he estimates that potentially a quarter of this decline in mental health can be due to social media. Again, you can't really, it's not a, this is why the other experiment is a little bit better because”
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“Yeah, it was a study that was conducted by an Italian scientist. And what he did, he noticed that when Facebook first started in 2004, it just started at Harvard, right? And then a while later they went on to a lot of Ivy League universities one by one very slowly. And then 2008, they opened up to the world. And what he found is that in every university that Facebook was introduced, mental health went down. It was the reason he could do the study is that the university had measures of people's well-being, because they actually measure it quite often. And he can see in every university, mental health went down every university. And then in the population, Facebook was introduced in 2008. In the next 10 years, the depression episodes were increased by 80%. Now, you don't know causation. None of this tells you causation.”
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“That knowledge may you know, it may not make you feel good, but we value knowledge and information, and that's perhaps one reason why the people went back. It could also be something like addiction. I mean, a lot of things in life that you're addicted to, you kind of know they're not good for you. You know they're not causing you havoc, but there's need, right? There's something pushing you.”
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“Yes. Yes, there's a great experiment that was conducted by the economist Hunt Alcott where he took 1,000 people, he gave them $100 to get off Facebook for a month, and he took another 1,000 individuals and he gave them $100 to just continue what they're doing. At the end of the month, he came and he measured their wellbeing. On every single measure that he had, those people who quit for a month were happier. They were less anxious, less depressed, less sad, so in every measure they were in a better state, right? And they were surprised. They had no idea that this was going to have such a huge effect on them. But here's an even bigger surprise. They said that they were happier, right? They fully admitted it, but most of them, straight away at the end of the month, went back to Facebook, which is really interesting because you acknowledge that the thing is causing you a negative effect in your health. So when do you go back? I think there's two reasons. One is you gain information.”
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“Experiment. I think, you know, the last chapter in a book, we call it experiments in living. Experiment in living because it's really hard to know what are the things that are really good in your life and what are the things that are not so good in life until you make some changes. Take a break from social media for a few weeks. Do something different for you and then you will see.”
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“They are things that are negatively affecting your life, and you don't know it because they're always there. Social media is one example, that you might, a lot of people may suspect that social media, Instagram, Twitter, is causing them a little bit of anxiety a little bit of stress, but they don't really know for sure. You can't measure it until you take a break, right? It's a bit like the AC noise looming in the background. You don't notice it, but when you stop, when you turn it off, you're suddenly, oh, that's so much better. I didn't even realize that this thing is causing me anxiety. So I think, you know,”
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“A lot of time people may not feel so much joy in their life, and then they look around them and they conclude that maybe I'm not feeling so much joy because my relationship isn't that good or, you know, my job isn't that good. And, you know, maybe it is. But maybe they are good.”
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“Now with long term investments, right? A lot of the investments, financial investments that we make are long-term. So we may start small and then we grow, grow, grow, grow, and we don't know the outcomes until years later.”
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“Two little steps, right? And then the more they do it, they feel more comfortable with it, right? They walk more and more and more, take more virtual risk until, you know, 10 trials in, they're jumping, right? And we actually measure their anxiety. We measure skin conductance response. And the more they do it, the less anxious they feel. So they take more risk. And the less excited they feel. So they need more risk to feel the same level of excitement. Yeah, I mean, on one hand, they're exploring more. In some cases, it could be dangerous for you.”
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“It's such a puzzle. It's really interesting experience because you know that you are on the ground, right? I know that I'm in my office. I know that I'm safe. But at the same time, my brain is completely tricked. It's such, you know, it really makes you feel quite humble at how easy it is to trick your brain. You're feeling really scared. And when we let people do that, they start off by maybe taking one little step.”
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“And I mean, that could be a bad thing, right? This again, it's like both things are at the same time because you might take huge risks because you shouldn't really take. We do this with virtual risk as well. So we want to put, we wanted to do is test people's physical risk taking But of course, we can't put them in danger. So what we did is we used virtual reality. What we did is we used this game where you put the headset on and then you go up the elevator to a skyscraper and you walk on a plank, up, up, up in the air, right? It's all virtual. Have you done this”
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“The next step wouldn't seem so crazy. And so on and so forth. We see that, you know, risk habituates and it helps us explore different things. It helps us try new things. It can also go in a bad direction, right? Because of risk habituation. What is risk habituation? Risk habituation is you do risky things. What we find is that when people do risky things, let's say gamble. We have a study where we let people gamble without letting them know if they won or lost. They just gamble gamma gamma. We tell them at the end. They gamble, they start gambling just a little bit. And then they gamble more and more and more and more, right? They feel more comfortable with gambling, less anxious, right? They also feel less excited, so they need to gamble more. And so risk really escalates because our emotions in response to risk habituate, so risk escalates. So that's finance.”
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“Yeah, so we quote the rock climber Alex Hanold in the book. And what he says is that he has a comfort zone, which is kind of a bubble around him. And as he tries more and more things, that bubble just becomes bigger and bigger and bigger. He pushes those boundaries. And what happens is that those things that seemed crazy to him, absolutely crazy, then suddenly become within the realm of possibility. I think the takeaway here is you have to start. You have to try. And what is helpful to know is that even if you try small, so let's say there's their goal is quite up there. It's like a huge risk, right? Yes. Just try small, right? And then suddenly”
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“Wanting to have meaning is a luxury that we have because we have our basic needs, right? Because we have food and shelter and, you know, just like safety, the very, very basic, we can then start thinking about meaning. But on the other hand, you can say, well, Just being able to care for my family and keeping them safe that also has meaning.”
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“And I think he doesn't, you know, people don't think about it. I mean, it's just we're using the same words, but I think these perhaps different generations have different aspiration, right? Because changing the world when we say those, when I say the words, I don't mean like changing the world, right? I'm just saying doing something that creates a change in your world. I mean, maybe that's a better way to do it, better way to say it, some kind of change in your world, not necessarily I'm doing global change like Steve Jobs, but in some way this is a luxury. And that's true also even for your father's generation and for this new generation, right?”
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“They can't just get a job. Right. And when I said about a dent in the world, I did not mean, as I said before, I don't mean like inventing the Mac. It could just be making a nice meal that people enjoy, right? Or something. It could be things that are quite small. And, you know, thinking about your father, he wants to be an engineer, but he wanted to be an engineer. But why? Right? He said that's what he wanted to do, but why did he want that, right? So he probably, I don't know, but maybe he wanted to be that because that would enable him to create. New things. And so in just creating new things, you're changing the world. So I think”
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“I guess is that what you're doing is valuable, right? Yeah, too. So that's a good question. I think it's probably beyond yourself. I don't know. Maybe it is even something about immortality, right? Wanting to feel that what I'm doing is going to change something beyond myself. And it's not necessarily about generosity, although, you know, generosity could be part of it, but it's more about making a difference, right? Steve Job had this saying that he said something like a dent in the universe, right? Making a dent in the universe. I think a lot of people want to do that and don't have to invent the Mac to do that. It could also be how you affect your family, how you raise your children, right? And that thing, those are the kind of things that can continue to be even when you're not there.”
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“Yeah, that goes back to the survey that I mentioned, where they found that the number one thing that was important for people's happiness was meaning.”
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“If you go down to creatures low in the evolutionary scale, I think for them things are more basic for them is just like food Temperature, right? Things like that that are really about survival. But as we go up and up and up the ladder and we get to humans, for us there's a lot of different things that can be incentivizing.”
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“Absolutely. I mean, every decision, every action conscious or unconscious is very much about incentives, right? The good and the bad. I think what's interesting to me is that those incentives are quite variable. They can be money. They can be food. They can be like social interactions They can be variety. Yeah. So, what the incentives are is very variable. What the good that I'm getting also the bad, right? What feels bad? A lot of different things can feel bad.”
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“Right, right. And for example, you know, there's silly things where people say, I've heard this, where for writers and they tell the friends, you know, I'm going to send you my chapter Monday at 7 a.m. And first of all, that's a pact, right? I mean, I have to send it because I told you, not because you're even going to read it, right? But if I don't, then I am, you know, $100 is going to come into your account. Like maybe you even already put it, you know, as like a future thing which you can stop, right? So there's a cost. You put a cost to what will happen if you don't do that immediate thing.”
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“Right, and that's because we're a sophisticated creature, right? We're not only driven. I mean, those things immediately are strong, but we're not only driven by them. We have these frontal lobes, right? We're sophisticated creature. We can value things that are in the future. So what I'm saying, when I say, you know, Immediate is important. I'm not saying future isn't important for us and we don't use that. We do, right? And we're able to do that. Another thing that people do is they actually put in artificial costs for not doing the right thing, right?”
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“To go to the gym. Yeah, they come first, right? So you have to overcome those costs. And I think as you're saying, one thing you could do is to try to get those rewards closer in prime. So if I go to the gym, I have to like walk to the gym. I might tell myself, okay, I can listen to a podcast while I'm walking. So that's enjoyable.”
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“Right. And the problem is that the costs are often immediate. And then we fall into what's called the present bias, or sometimes it's called temporal discounting, which is that often we value what's happening in the moment more than the same thing if it was to happen in the future, right? And that's true for both bad things and good things, things that are just happening now. Our brain is like, oh, I'm going to decide what to do based on this immediate thing. And the problem is that the cost are often immediate, right?”
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“happening today and there's this like goal in the future but you have to bridge the temple gap to try to think about okay what can I also get now it could be an emotional response right I mean a lot of times when we do something like we work hard we solve a problem we go to the gym We feel good. It could be the emotional response. So maybe one way you can do is make that salient, right? Maybe like track your emotions, track your mood and you can say, okay, this is what I did today, right? I went to the gym today. This is how I was feeling, right? And so that's also an immediate reward.”
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“I'm going to the gym because I want to be healthier and, you know, thinner or whatever in the future, but is there anything that I can get at the very moment? I've heard people tell me that the way that they motivate themselves to get to the gym is they say when I get to the gym and I get on the treadmill, I'm going to allow myself to watch some trash TV or read like, you know, a magazine that I don't always allow myself to read. So that's one thing, right? Think about what the immediate rewards that you can give yourself or someone else. Maybe you're helping someone else to achieve their goals. What can we get immediately, not only in the future? For example, another person told me that their husband, they really wanted their husband to go to the gym. And so the husband went to the gym and they got back and the wife said to the husband, oh, I can feel you're like, I can see your muscles, right? So it was immediate, right? They gave them like immediate rewards. So try to think about, I call it like bridge the temporal gap because there's an action.”
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“Okay, so I talk about a few principles there. And one is A lot of time our goals are in the future. So I want to go to the gym because eventually I want to lose weight. I'm not going to lose weight that very second, right? I'm not going to like get into my jeans that very day. Eventually, I know that if I go to the gym, I will become healthier, right? So a lot of times it's about the future or you say, I want to get a promotion. So I'm going to work really hard today so I can get promotion in the future. The problem is that it's really hard to motivate yourself to do something immediate for a reward that's going to come a long time from now. So what you need to do is you need to figure out what can I get now.”
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“And so often, I mean, there's this really counterintuitive finding, which is when people don't have certain things in their life, for example, in countries where the healthcare system is quite bad, the healthcare system doesn't affect people's daily happiness as much as in countries where the healthcare system is good. So when the healthcare system is good, you expect it to be good. So then any variation can impact your kind of satisfaction. But if you're living in a country where you're like, well, I know the healthcare system is bad. It's not going to even affect how I'm feeling, right? You have no expectations and you're kind of, that's not going to impact your happiness.”
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“Them to be, and it signals to your brain I need to learn something. I need to change this, right? There's two things you can change. You can change your expectations. You can lower them, or you can change the reality, right? And so this negative mood that is associated with outcomes not being as good as you expected them can actually lead to progress. So it's a bit of a delicate kind of balance, right?”
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“Yeah, so your expectations can be based on what you just expect for yourself and also what other people do. Now, I'm not saying that High expectations are bad, right? There's two things happening at the same time. One thing is when the outcomes, so this is related to dopamine neurons. So basically dopamine neurons in your brain are firing all the time, right? And then when outcomes are better than expected, they fire even more, bursts more, right? So you expect to get this amount of salary, you get a higher salary. dopamine goes up you expect the steak to taste quite good it tastes even better they fire more And when things are worse than expected, they start quieting down, right? So they're quieting down when things are worse than expected. And that is highly correlated with your mood, when there's big bursts of dopamine, you feel good, when the dopamine is quiet, you're feeling bad. But that quiet is important because that quiet says things are not as good as I expect.”
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“Showing that when prisoners are about to be released They are still in prison, but in their mind they are ready like thinking about the release, which is great. And so now their expectations are kind of higher, and that makes them feel worse, right? So they're actually very close to release, but in fact, they're feeling really bad because their daily life is much worse from what they expect their daily life to be.”
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“Right. So, this has a lot to do with what do we expect from life, and how do those expectations impact us? So, I think obviously social media is causing us to have unrealistic expectations. We always, I don't know, for most of us, we feel kind of disappointed with ourselves. We go online because, of course, a lot of people go online and they post the good things, right? Oh, I'm on vacation. I got this award. And then you go online and you're like, oh, all the people, all of this good things are happening constantly. And so you feel disappointed about your own life. You have unrealistic expectations. And it shifts what we call adaptation levels. So basically we adapt to our daily life. And then things that are better than our daily life, we feel good and things are worse. We feel worse. But sometimes our adaptation level can shift not based on our reality, but what we expect maybe will happen and also what we see other people are doing. So let's talk about expecting what will happen. So there's a study.”
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“So for the positive, you want variety and so on, but the things that you're not going to learn a lot from, you just need to get them over and done with, just get them over and done with and even do it at exactly the same way that you've over always done it.”
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“People like breaks for a breather, right? If it is, I don't know, washing the floor or whatever there is doing their taxes, they want the brakes. But in fact, they suffer less if they just get it over with because then they habituate to the negative”
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“Right? Because, I mean, unless you think you get on a plane and you're super enjoy it. But for me, I just want it to be over with, right? So it's easier actually to use the same error line, to do the same thing. So in some parts of life, actually, you want to choose to do the same thing. And in fact, in some parts of life, you want to do these things that you don't enjoy in one chunk. You know how we talked about the good things you chop up? The bad things you want to swallow whole. So if you think about things that you don't like to do but you really need to do, like, I don't know, I need to grade papers. I need to know household chores. When you ask people, like, would you rather do this thing that you need to do but you don't like, would you just get it over with in one go? Or do you want breaks in between for a breather?”
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“Yes, but I want to just say something about you said use different airlines and so on. So on one hand, yes, but on the other hand, if something is not super enjoyable, but you still have to do it. So for example, maybe flying, maybe travel, like when you're traveling for business. It can be painful, right? So in those cases, in fact, you want to do the same thing again and again. Why? Because you habituate to the negative. You see? So if you think about things that you don't like to do, you may actually want to do it in the same way over and over.”
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“Right, so sometimes it's would look like they're going sideways. Right. So sometimes it doesn't look like the path is just progressing forward, but sometimes perhaps the plan is to go a little bit sideways. Which means, like, it's not the obvious thing”
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“Responsibilities, it could even be something as, I mean, you don't have to completely change what you're doing, but you could at the same time try something new. And in fact, you know, from, you know, I'm sure you do that because you have different things that you're doing, right? And so that means you have variety in your day because you do your podcast, but then you also have your companies and your companies are different, right? So this is a good example, but not everyone has that, right? A lot of people just have the one job. But if you can take on, you know, learn something new. Induced variety into your day in that way, that is great, that will cause you to start being on kind of a learning mode, right?”
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“Yeah, that is a great example. That is a great example. Because our brain goes, yeah, salad is good for you. And then, you know, by the time we get to sugar, we're like, okay, that could be true. And also. It makes you be more believable. And just to say, you need a little bit of sugar. Sugar is not only bad.”
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“We call priors, right? So if I want to convince you of something, it might be a good idea for me to think about what do you already believe, right? And then try to tie that to what you already believe because that will require less processing. Or I could tell you something twice or three times. Now, of course, it's not like I'm going to tell you something really, really crazy, right? The earth is flat three times and you're going to believe me, right? But I'm talking about these things where like it could be true, right? And so I tell you that a few times. And then eventually you more likely to believe it and you don't know it's because you've heard it a few times.”
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“So, what that means is if you want people to, if you want to help them believe what you're saying, right, take on your recommendations, you want to make it easier for them to process it. So you could do that visually, big fonts, rent, so on. But the other things you can do is you can relate it to things that they already believe in.”
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“Yeah, not only are people more attentive, they're going to believe it more. So there's studies showing that you show people two sentences. One is in big fonts, bold, and one is in small. And you ask them, you know, how like the existing to be true? How like these ought to be true? Those sentences that are in big, bold fonts, people are more likely to believe they're true because the brain requires less energy to process it, which then makes us conclude that it's likely to be true. And it's true for example, if you do it with like red color. Anything that makes it easier for us to process, if we hear things more clearly, we're more likely to believe that's true than if you put a little bit of noise, people are less likely to believe things are true. Anytime that it's hard for us to process.”
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“So anything that you hear again and again and again, as you hear it more and more and more, it takes less energy to process, and if it takes less energy to process, our brain then concludes that this is likely true. And for good reason, because most of the time when you hear something again and again, most of the time it's true. So if you heard something from, you know, your aunt and then you heard it from your friend and then you heard it from your doctor, why do all the people tell you all these things? On average, it's true, but sometimes it's not going to be true, right? It's going to be false beliefs, right? And even things like it takes you less energy to process a large font, 14 fonts bold. It takes a less.”
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“A shrimp's heart is in its head, right? So when you hear that, that sounds really surprising, and your brain takes a lot of resources to process this. You might think about the last time I ate a shrimp, right? Or just imagine the shrimp's heart is in his head. But the second time I'm going to tell you this, a shrimp's heart is in his head, your brain's not going to process this that much, right? And the third time, it's not going to process it at all. Now, when your brain takes less effort in processing things, That causes a signal of familiarity. And as a result, we're more likely to believe something.”
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“Way up versus something that you hear once. It's called the illusory truth effect. Just there's so many studies showing this. You let people, you tell people something twice. They don't remember that they've heard it twice. And they're going to believe it way more than something that they just heard once. The reason for this is that the brain process information that it's heard before less, right? Okay, so let's say I tell you that”
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“Right. Yeah, I mean, it is true that we're not conscious of most of these kind of systematic mistakes that we make and the biases that we have. For example, I mean, maybe our belief system is a great example of why we believe what we believe. I think that if you'd ask people, why do you believe a certain thing, they would probably give you some kind of rational explanation, right? I believe this thing because, you know, here's all the evidence and so forth. But in fact, most of the times the reason we believe something is that we were brought up in an environment with that belief was a popular one or people around us believe that, oh, we've heard it again and again. You know, one interesting thing is this is a huge effect what people are not aware of it. As long as you hear something repeatedly, even twice, the likelihood that you believe it goes.”
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“It's never me trying to think of something new, me trying to find a solution. It's always doing something else, which then something unusual, not something that I do like 90% of the time in a day. And that doing those times is when these kind of new ideas came about.”
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“I remember calling my student and sharing that, and that would then change years of what we were going to do, right? So just all I did was change my physical activity, changed just my physical surrounding. And that's exactly what these studies show. Or another example was, again, I was in my office and I took a break and I was reading the New York Times science section. So not hugely different, but still different, right? And then I read something about monkeys, and I do humans. And that, again, that was an idea came about by taking a break and doing something that was a little bit different. And I think every single example of this, it's always like that.”
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