If a baseball and a bat cost $1.10 together, and the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?
Solution
5 cents. System 1 thinking often leads to mistakes in this type of problem.
A father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the hospital; just as he’s about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate—that boy is my son!” How is that possible?
Solution
The surgeon is the boy’s mother. This puzzle illustrates the persistence of gender discrimination.
In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
Solution
47 days. To answer correctly, you need to ignore your system 1 and use your system 2.
Alan is smart, hard-working, impulsive, stubborn and jealous.
Ben is jealous, stubborn, impulsive, hard-working and smart.
Who should you hire?
Solution
They are the same, but a priming effect often make people prefer the first candidate.
20-07-2020
How can you have more “good days” at work?
This is one of the key questions Caroline Webb, workplace productivity expert and author of How to Have a Good Day, asked in her years at McKinsey when helping teams to be more productive, creative, and fulfilled. The results from her experiences, backed by decades of behavioral science research, lead to insights that can drastically improve your workday. For example, did you know that avoiding multi-tasking – or doing what Caroline calls singletasking – can help you complete tasks 30% faster?
We had the fantastic opportunity to speak with Caroline Webb to learn more about how to have a “Good Day” at work by working with the way our brains are naturally programmed, using behavioral science. Join us for this special episode as part of our B.E. Good! Nudging better business and better lives podcast.
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