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.