January 16, 2009

Nothing too heavy for Friday... Irrationality Explained

I had a huge, tough-to-read, heavily footnoted and researched post for today... but... Naah.  Let' go with a little video break and we'll get back to the hard stuff next week.  Have a great weekend.

This video is of Dan Ariely - author of Predictably Irrational.  I've highlighted some of the concepts in his book here in a previous post.  But nothing seems to hit home more than seeing the author explain some of the findings that prove that we are - predictably irrational.  The clip runs about 20 minutes - but extremely interesting and easy to watch/listen to. 

Enjoy.  (feed subscribers will need to click through to see video.)



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