26 Sep 2018

How to make decisions, and when to trust your gut

From Afternoons, 3:08 pm on 26 September 2018

Every day we make decisions big and small that have implications big and small. Going with your gut is OK when you can't decide which color jersey to buy, but making big decisions with big consequences requires skills few of us really know and understand.  

Steven Johnson writes about science and innovation. We spoke to him last year about the power of play.

He has a new book that looks at the science of decision-making, offering ideas about how to make important choices with a little wisdom and proven processed. The books is called Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most.