009: Paul Craven on skill vs luck and Aristotle's rhetorical triangle

A Load of BS on Sport: The Behavioural Science Podcast with Daniel Ross and Liam Botham

English - September 16, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB
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Previous Episode: 008: Rory Sutherland on alchemy and psycho-logic (PART 2)

Next Episode: 010: Rory Sutherland in jail in Qatar (The BONUS episode)

Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with behavioural economics expert Paul Craven. After almost 30 years in asset management working for the city’s biggest names, Paul’s passion is understanding “how real people make real decisions in the real world.” Paul gives over 50 talks a year around the world to audiences from investors to doctors to lawyers to entrepreneurs explaining the tricks our minds play. Check out Paul’s website logo for one of them.

If you missed Part 1 of this interview, you can find it here. There, we left off on the question of generalisation vs. specialization; and that’s where we pick up Part 2.

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In this episode, we discuss:

The benefits of a polymathic approach to lifeTransactions vs. relationshipsAristotle’s rhetorical triangle Skill vs. luck andMinimising errors vs. maximising winners

Books referenced in the podcast

Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion (new and expanded), by Robert CialdiniRange: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David EpsteinAlchemy: The Magic of Original Thinking in a World of Mind-Numbing Conformity, by Rory SutherlandThinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

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