Pictured clockwise from top to bottom: Tali Sharot, David Eagleman, Dr. Laurie Santos
I am so excited to announce that the new Season of The Decision Education Podcast is launching November 13th!! I have so much fun hosting this podcast, getting the privilege of speaking to some incredible visionaries, scholars, and other decision-making experts from various fields who share their thoughts on improving decision-making in all aspects of life.
Listen to the Season 5 trailer
Beginning November 13, listeners can hear from this season’s guests. If I do say so myself, it is a star-studded line-up, including:
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Dr. Laurie Santos, the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. Dr. Santos is an expert on the science of happiness. Her Yale course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” recently became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years.
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Seth Godin, renowned author, entrepreneur, and marketing expert is known for his transformative ideas in business and leadership. A former VP of Direct Marketing at Yahoo!, he has authored 22 bestselling books and inspired millions to rethink how they approach marketing, creativity, and work.
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David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, an internationally bestselling author, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Dr. Eagleman’s areas of research include sensory substitution, time perception, vision, and synesthesia; he also studies the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system, and directs the Center for Science and Law.
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Josh Kopelman has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the internet industry since its commercialization. He founded a number of extremely successful internet businesses, including Infonautics, Half.com, and TurnTide. Kopelman co-founded seed-stage investment firm First Round Capital—one of the most active venture capital firms in the country.
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Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience in the department of experimental psychology and The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London. She is also on the faculty of the department of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.
Thank you to this season’s sponsor, First Round Capital! Learn more about their work at firstround.com.
About The Decision Education Podcast:
The decisions we make have a tremendous impact on our lives and the lives of those around us. But what goes into making better decisions? Hear from experts from diverse backgrounds as they share insights on how asking the right questions, improving predictions, managing cognitive biases, and other strategies can make us better decision makers. Through real-life stories and cutting-edge research, gain practical strategies and transform your understanding of the role decisions play in our lives.
New episodes are available every other Wednesday beginning November 13. Subscribe now to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Catch up on previous episodes here.