Friday, November 8, 2013

A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

by Dan Ariely

1.1 Visual & Decision Illusions
Here were kind people—wonderful people,
who were spending hours in terrible
conditions to serve their patients.
And they were not saying, you know, I
don't know which is the right way.
They were convinced that the right thing
to do was actually the thing that was
wrong.
It's not as if they say, I just don't know
what the right answer is.
No they actually had a strong conviction
that they knew what the right answer is,
but that was not the right one.

[good people trying to do "good things"]

1.3 Do We Know Our Preferences?
List 10 different reasons why the majority of people should not be lifelong learners. 
List 8 different reasons why you should not be an autodidact.
List 8 reasons public education should change. 
Just before: Now you can change their momentary mindset. The purpose is to take action. Do right before they should. 


1.6 Learning from our Mistakes
[Quotes]
Fork in the road to how they've "always done..." -> Steady, As She Goes by The Raconteurs

Extras



Coursera courses stop access to course materials six months after the course ends.
When reaching this limit either streamline double rate though lectures or read (and break into cards or notes or however you retain) the overviews/ handouts, ie, the second column image after the thought bubbles (when all courses have this layout slightly different).
Yet, some courses do not have outlines such as some math courses; some only have one such as the 2013 Scientific Computing's 140 page's notes packet.

Picture showing the links to course notes, etc, on right side.

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