2015-05-05
52 分钟If people walk away from this book or this, you know, the discussion that we're hoping to spur here, thinking, only one thought, which is, I have a choice.
If I see a complicated problem in my personal life, my organization, society, I have a choice between a complicated solution and a simple solution.
If that's all they walk away with, we will be very happy.
What if the simplest option was the best option?
That's something that a lot of people struggle with.
We live in a complex, complicated world, and we tend to assume that to get where we want to go, to build what we want to build, to create amazing things and solve big problems.
Well, the process, the answers, the rules have to be big and complex, too.
In this week's conversation with the author of a book called Simple Rules, Donald Sell.
We dive into this and we actually really pull back a lot of the mythology, and he actually shares some pretty interesting research that shows that, in fact, simple very often is best.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
All right, so you threw it out there.
So let's.
I think this is a fun place to start.
So I'm sitting across from the table from a clearly extremely accomplished, you know, like, smart, intelligent, academic and professional world man, and.
But you have a history as a bouncer and a biker bar.
1 mile.
Yeah.
So I worked my way through college, and one of the jobs I had was working as a bouncer in a bar.
And the bar was exactly, almost exactly halfway between Harvard and MIT on Mass Ave.
So if I tell you that, if I tell most people that, they picture some, you know, ivy covered bar with people sitting around talking about Proust or string theory or something.