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Stuck in a Rut? Escape! | Stephen Shapiro #innovation #speaker #thinking

Name: Stuck in a Rut? Escape! | Stephen Shapiro #innovation #speaker #thinking
Uploaded: 2020-03-31T20:06:18+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Stephen Shapiro
Description: A short YouTube talk by Stephen Shapiro about how expertise can create premature stopping: experts often generate an answer quickly by extrapolating from…

31 Mar 2020 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Stephen Shapiro about how expertise can create premature stopping: experts often generate an answer quickly by extrapolating from past experience and then stop searching for alternatives. The speaker prompts listeners to reflect on this tendency and signals intent to explore strategies for overcoming it.

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Now, I want you to think about the last time you lost something. You know, you're looking everywhere for it. You're looking in your pockets, in your briefcase and your desk and your counters. 10 minutes goes by, 15 minutes goes by. You find what you're looking for. What do you inevitably say to yourself? Can you believe it? They were in the last place I looked. But, of course, who finds something and keeps on looking for it? That would be ridiculous. And the same thing is true with the brain. When you are an expert, you will come up with an answer quickly, which will be an extrapolation of the past and things you've thought of, and then you will naturally stop looking. So what I want to explore with you is how do you, as experts, actually overcome this bit of dilemma that we have.