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Irrationality as a strategy
January 21, 2008
In day-to-day contexts, I notice negotiation, persuasion, and strategy has so much more to do with emotions, and not as much to do with logic and reason.
And I thought humans were “rational”.
I had to learn this the hard way, losing badly in board games like Risk, Imperial, Monopoly, and mafia :(
In the future, I will “act irrationally” as a strategy!
Let experimental psychologist Stephen Pinker explain to you how this could be beneficial to you, in his video, “Do hotheads always win?”
angeli says:
hey hey! haha i just read about this in WSJ yesterday! really cool! but once a TED junkie, always will be! ;P
khailee says:
dont be irrational now ;p
lina says:
Sometimes we need to be irrational in order to success. If we think too much or being too rational , we will miss out some chances.
this is what i learn from my life.
:-P cheers