#090 Why We Make Stupid Decisions. "Driven" by Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

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  Hello there, Kevin, Here with another episode of the Feel Good English Podcast,

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  the only podcast in the world that's helping you become English,

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  better at English and better at life, giving you lessons based on the best nonfiction books,

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  and other inspiring and enlightening content to help your English learning journey go more smoothly.

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  Let's make it smooth and today I'm going to help you understand human behavior.

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  More this lesson is going to be based on a book called Driven.

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  This book is by two authors and the authors are Paul R. Lawrence and Nittin Noria Nittanoria.

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  And what this book is about is that we have four instinctive drives,

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  instinctive motivations to do what we do in life.

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  So these four motivations basically guide us through life and help us make decisions,

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  either good decisions or bad decisions.

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  And these are all based on core human drive.

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  So a drive is like a motivation.

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  So we're talking about four core human motivations.

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  The purpose of this book is to help us understand why we make sometimes very irrational decisions,

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  why we make decisions that we regret.

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  For example, going to the mall and spending way too much money and then coming home and saying,

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  oh my God, what did I do?

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  This book answers questions on why we do crazy things like that,

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