Dan Ariely explains why humans make irrational choices and take fewer risks. He connects this to how COVID changed our motivation to work, why companies invest more in buildings than people, and shares his experience with severe burns and how society treats visible scars.
Wow, that's mind blowing.
Mind blowing, right?
What I understand you've went deep on is irrational behaviors.
People are taking less and less risk. I don't want to take risk. I don't want to take risk. I don't want to take risk. And my goodness, I don't want to live a riskless life. You mentioned Covid.
What happened around Covid?
My guess is that somebody misbehaved. We were home, we were stressed, kids were home. It can create a hostile work environment. Wow. When people work from home, the question of intrinsic motivation becomes more intense.
What else do we need to know about motivation?
Companies, when they buy a warehouse, it's an investment. When they invest in their people, it's a cost.
That's ridiculous. Absolute, like, nonsensical.
So I have this very strange half a beard. And the question is, why do I have this half a beard? Many years ago, I was badly burned, so most of my body is covered with scars. People would ask questions, kids would point, people would laugh. Not a good day.
When we go through any form of pain or rejection, it's very hard to get to a point where we accept it.
For the last eight years, I have been studying the following question.
