Guido Imbens: Nobel Prize Conversations
Nobel Prize Conversations
English - June 22, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBEducation Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In an increasingly chaotic world, how can you learn to concentrate deeply on a single problem? Economic Sciences laureate Guido Imbens found his powers of concentration while getting lost in chess games as a child. ”For four or five hours you would just shut out the rest of the world, you would be focused on one task.”
Your host is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer at Nobel Prize Outreach. In this episode Guido and Adam talk about the beauty of chess, the pitfalls in talking publicly about uncertain data, and the challenge of keeping an open mind in research. But the conversation kicks off by delving into an experience they share outside of academia: parenting teenagers.
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