After years of researching how to best act despite life's inherent randomness, I'm excited to share and discuss these ideas with groups, classes, and organizations.
Do you think you're lucky, punk? Cognitive biases are all irrational: some are key for mental health, happiness, and success. As long as it's done right, thinking of yourself as happy-go-lucky actually improves outcomes.
Organizations and people have billions of years of data to learn from when it comes to being able to prepare for the unknown. What can we learn from species that thrive in randomness? Do we copy rabbits or humans? Surviving requires a mix of qualities from both the fast and slow.
How do we make decisions about other people? And, more importantly, how are other people judging and sizing us up? The science of social decision making may not be what you think it is.
Life gets bigger the more you say yes—but this doesn't mean saying yes to everything. Life is short. Maximize time: be smart. Go where the luck is, and then buy all the lottery tickets you can.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
Andrew Solomon
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