You are somewhat interesting in our group of friends because you have a lot of self-imposed constraints that a lot of others would be like, why are you doing that!? But they are really effective so maybe you can talk about your own experience with that. I wanted to talk about this in the context of what you do, Vat. In this chapter he talked about one of the deviations from rationality is that if you give people more constraints, in particular you give them the ability to hinder their own progress, in they might actually do better. Scott: The first I want to talk about which I thought was very interesting is something that you have deliberately designed your environment to try to overcome is the one on self-control and procrastination. …some tactics for self-imposed restrictions… If you would rather read the full transcript, click here. They’re systematic and predictable-making us predictably irrational. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, we consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. In this newly revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Vat Jaiswal and I discuss Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
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