I often think of the Amos Tversky quote “The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” & how much effort academics have to put into showing how “busy” they are. No CV has a section for “thinking time”.

Progress isn’t always about getting better. Sometimes it’s about bouncing back. Success is not only the peaks you reach—it’s the valleys you conquer. Every experience of enduring adversity and overcoming obstacles is a meaningful accomplishment.   Resilience is a form of growth.

Check out the newest #behavioural insights job opening at the intersection of #regulation, #policy, and capital #markets - the Ontario Securities Commission is hiring! Tyler Fleming Behavio(u)ral Science Job Listings BEAR UofT The BE Hub tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/care…

This promises to be an outstanding event! unssc.org/events/shaping… BEAR UofT United Nations Cass Sunstein United Nations System Staff College Rotman School Joseph Wong Behavioral Scientist @ProfShu Behavioural Public Policy journal

Offering virtually worthless "points" can increase stock trading activity by a whopping 39%! Today, OSC News published its latest collaboration with BIT Canada 🇨🇦: osc.ca/sites/default/…. This research was led on the BIT side by Laura Callender and Sebastian Salomon-Ballada!

Our BEAR UofT partner ideas42 is looking for a director of financial health initiatives! Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Melanie Kim William Mailer Financial Conduct Authority Kyle B. Murray BEworks ideas42.org/careers/

Always so nice to be back at Rotman School - this time for a #SOBDR2023 conference hosted by BEAR UofT!! Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Julian House

"The courage to start. The discipline to focus. The confidence to figure it out. The patience to know progress is not always visible. The persistence to keep going, even on the bad days. That's the formula." — @shaneaparrish

"It's never really failure unless you just give up." Alex Honnold shares how climbing has shaped his perspective on failure.

The Eiffel tower or Taj Mahal. Monuments we don't see everyday but take comfort in knowing the world is better cos of them. Kahneman was the Eiffel for so many in our field. It's like the sun has been switched off! BEAR UofT Cass Sunstein George Wu Richard H Thaler bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

An essay by Richard H Thaler and yours truly on Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, his greatest collaborator. newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

I was so lucky to be able to have Danny Kahneman as a best friend and collaborator for decades. He usually ended our conversations with "to be continued..." but I now have to simulate his part which is impossible. My favorite image of us "working".

Wednesday wisdom from Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024):

Overheard at BEAR UofT talk with Cass Sunstein: People trade off #happiness and #meaning for the sake of #variety in their lives! Variety is something that, by nature, people won't habituate. Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Rotman School

Thank you Cass Sunstein for a provocative and high-energy discussion on "Barbie goods" at BEAR UofT Rotman School The BEAR on the slide was a particularly nice touch :-) Joshua Gans @yingzeng39 Melanie Kim Paul Bloom @TheAvniShah #BIOrg

We've added more seats! Join us on 14 May for the #SOBDR2024 conference hosted Rotman School 🎟️Registration & details: biorgpartnership.com/biorg-events/s… Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Eric J. Johnson Kristen Duke Dr. Nicole Robitaille @TheAvniShah @grantpackard Daniella Turetski Melanie Kim #JDM #BehSci

If you've wondered why #BehSci is not used in change management, wonder no more! Our final webinar of the acadyear and in the #BIOrg ere tackles this! BEAR UofT Rotman School BEworks Melanie Kim Kyle B. Murray Rory Sutherland Roger L. Martin Ajay Agrawal Avi Goldfarb

Thanks Behavioral Scientist for including What Works, What Doesn't (and When) in your list of 2024 noteworthy books behavioralscientist.org/behavioral-sci… BEAR UofT University of Toronto Press Rotman School Behavioural Public Policy journal Kyle B. Murray Katy Milkman ideas42 BEworks Melanie Kim Cass Sunstein

Something I've observed in academia but I suspect is true in industry as well: as you become more senior, you'll find that you can be much more productive if you spend all your time being a manager and letting junior people do all the real work. But after a few years of this,

The The Globe and Mail posted this chart, and it has been living rent free in my head ever since