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."
"There is no theoretical reason why we can't live beyond our current natural limit of 120, although this would require major breakthroughs in aging research."
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