Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, BCG’s Global Chief Economist, joined host Jack Farley to discuss false alarms and pervasive economic doomsaying.
Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, BCG’s Global Chief Economist, joined host Demetri Kofinas to discuss how to assess macroeconomic risk without relying on broken models, pervasive doom-mongering, and whipsawing data prints.
"Habits are the things we need to get done everyday. Rituals can help elevate these a little bit, transforming the boring actions of daily life into something with more richness and meaning."
"We need to fundamentally reframe how we see uncertainty—not as a crisis or shock we have to account for, but instead as a potential growth opportunity."
"Prediction is useless unless you work to make certain things happen and undermine the possibility of other things. [Without agency], what’s the point of prediction?"
"Habituation is diminishing sensitivity to a stimulus. [But] knowledge of habituation makes you more alert to what’s not ideal and more willing to take steps to move things into the right direction."
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