June 19th, 2006

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How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times

Yesterday, via Boing Boing, I listened to a great, Gladwell-esque speech (MP3) given by Harvard’s Daniel Gilbert at South By Southwest 2006. Here’s a snippet:

If it were a law that everybody who won and lost the lottery had to have a brief TV interview. You’d get 30 seconds of a guy going ‘oh my God, I won 10 million dollars’ and then you’d get 9.4 years without bathroom breaks or sleeping watching 30 seconds clips of people going ‘I lost, I lost, I lost.’

He’s also a pretty great public speaker–I highly recommend listening to this talk the next time your ears are available for 45 minutes.

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Thanks for the info. I’ll add the mp3 to my iPod and listen to it when I’m on the move :-)

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