Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories

"Just imagine yourself pressing a button, everytime you tell the good vs. evil story, and by pressing that button, you're lowering your IQ 10 points or more."

늘 생각해왔던 바다. good storyteller가 가진 많은 문제들.

story는 많은 경우 당신 삶에 destructive impact를 가진다.
성공한 삶이란 무엇인가에 대해, 무슨 차를 굴려야하고 무슨 집에서 살아야 하는가에 대해, 등등
그게 대부분 다 '스토리'의 형태로, 내러티브의 형태로 다가온다.

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"Fooled by Randomness" and "Black Swan"

two excellent books by Nassim N.Taleb presents the same idea of this talk in a much better and detailed way.
Also read the following books to get more insight

"Thinking fast and slow" - Daniel Kahneman
"Being wrong" - Kathryn Schultz
"why we make mistakes" - Joe Hallinan
"Predictably irrational" - Dan Ariely
Some are original works on the topic.
In the end be a "healthy" skeptic of all you read, hear, and see !