Episode · The Knowledge Project · 2015-12-08
Books mentioned on #6 Philip Tetlock: How to See the Future
In this episode of the Knowledge Project, I chat with professor and New York Times best-selling author Philip Tetlock about how we can get better at the art and science of predicting the future.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a foundational self-help and personal finance book that outlines principles for achieving success by cultivating a powerful wealth mindset and mastering visualization.
Discussed“Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink. And some psychologists wrote a rejoinder book, much less widely read, called Think.”
Where to get it
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Blink
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is an exploration of rapid cognition and the power of the unconscious mind, demonstrating how the human brain makes decisions in the blink of an eye using minimal information.
Discussed“Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink. And some psychologists wrote a rejoinder book, much less widely read, called Think.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Superforecasting
“I want to talk about your new book, Superforecasting, The Art and Science of Prediction, that you wrote with Dan Gardner, who, like me, I think is still based in Ottawa.”