You Can Think About Life

None Of Us Always Make The Best Financial Decisions.

Scaling Down Individually Is Very Hard. Imagine That If You Go To A Place Where Everybody Is Dressed Nicely, And You Are The Only One Who Doesn't Dress Nicely. Everybody Goes On Vacations To A Great Place And You Go To The Jersey Shore. It's Very Hard To Do These Things Without An Organized Mechanism, But It Looks To Me Like There Might Be Some Organized Mechanisms.

You Can Think About Life As A Battle Between You And A Doughnut Shop. The Doughnut Shop Wants You To Eat Another Doughnut And Pay The Money, And You Want To Do It In The Short Term, But In The Long Term It's Not Good For You Either Financially Or From A Health Perspective.

I Think We Could Get People To Both Be More Productive And Happier. We're Less Productive As Individuals. We're Less Productive As Companies, And We're More Miserable.

In Terms Of The Actual Curriculum For Management Education, My Own View Is Very Simple-minded: The World Is Incredibly Complex, It Changes All The Time, And We Should Not Even Hope That We Could Create A General Model That Accurately Describes The World In All Its Possible States.