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Howard Nusbaum

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The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

Adam Grant

Jonathan Haidt

Chip Conley

Robert Lustig

Dacher Keltner

Paul Bloom

Michele Gelfand

Joel Martin

Oliver Burkeman

Bob Mankoff

Ellen Langer

Gay Hendricks

Rosaly Lopes

Barry Schwartz

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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(First Broadcast - 21st June 2020) What is the value of wisdom in the time of the global pandemic? Does the community of behavioural scientists studying wisdom agree on anything about the nature of wisdom? Can we say what we now know about wisdom and, conversely, what do we know we don’t yet know? Howard Nusbaum joins Igor and Charles to discuss the recently assembled Toronto Wisdom Task Force and the resulting Common Wisdom Model, meta-cognition, the thorny issue of moral-grounding, and sage advice regarding how to measure wisdom in the lab. Igor stresses the importance of building solid theoretical foundations for the field in the context of the pandemic, Howard reflects on the viability of evil wisdom, and Charles learns that we had better pay close attention today to the values we program into the decision-making robots of tomorrow. Special Guest: Howard Nusbaum.Links:Original Broadcast: Episode 29 - Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum)The Science of Wisdom (AEON)The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2A Common Model Is Essential for a Cumulative Science of Wisdom: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2University of Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom | Center for Practical Wisdom | The University of ChicagoWisdom in Context - Igor Grossmann, 2017Toronto Wisdom Task Force Meeting 2019 (edited) - YouTubeAI Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

(First Broadcast - 21st June 2020) What is the value of wisdom in the time of the global pandemic? Does the community of behavioural scientists studying wisdom agree on anything about the nature of wisdom? Can we say what we now know about wisdom and, conversely, what do we know we don’t yet know? Howard Nusbaum joins Igor and Charles to discuss the recently assembled Toronto Wisdom Task Force and the resulting Common Wisdom Model, meta-cognition, the thorny issue of moral-grounding, and sage advice regarding how to measure wisdom in the lab. Igor stresses the importance of building solid theoretical foundations for the field in the context of the pandemic, Howard reflects on the viability of evil wisdom, and Charles learns that we had better pay close attention today to the values we program into the decision-making robots of tomorrow. Special Guest: Howard Nusbaum.Links:<ul><li><a href="https://onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Original Broadcast: Episode 29 - Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum)</a></li><li><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-psychological-scientists-found-the-empirical-path-to-wisdom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Science of Wisdom (AEON)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1750917?journalCode=hpli20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2</a></li><li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1750920?journalCode=hpli20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Common Model Is Essential for a Cumulative Science of Wisdom: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2</a></li><li><a href="https://wisdomcenter.uchicago.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom | Center for Practical Wisdom | The University of Chicago</a></li><li><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691616672066" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wisdom in Context - Igor Grossmann, 2017</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGxVBEoebU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toronto Wisdom Task Force Meeting 2019 (edited) - YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://futureoflife.org/2015/10/27/ai-open-letter/?cn-reloaded=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI Open Letter - Future of Life Institute</a></li></ul>

47: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum) - Rebroadcast

Professor Howard C. Nusbaum shares why " It’s wiser to listen than to speak ", how " Curiosity fuels wisdom ", how " Wisdom is a skill you can learn " and other lessons it took me 50 Years to Learn. Hosted by Duff Watkins   About Professor Howard C. Nusbaum PhD Howard C. Nusbaum is currently the Director of the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom and Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He has recently returned from serving as the Division Director for the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in the Directorate of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation. His research is on the psychology, neurobiology, and comparative biology of language use, the role of sleep in learning, attention and working memory, and the neurobiology of economic decisions. He is the director of the APEX Lab (Attention, Perception, and EXperience lab) where they study speech perception and music perception as auditory skills, perception as a cognitive system interconnected with other psychological systems, and how wiser decisions arise from experiences supporting an interaction of intellectual virtues such as epistemic humility, reflection, curiosity, and perseverance with moral virtues. “The mission of the Center is to deepen our scientific understanding of wisdom and its role in the decisions and choices that affect everyday life. We want to understand how an individual develops wisdom and the circumstances and situations in which people are most likely to make wise decisions. We hope that, by deepening our scientific understanding of wisdom, we will also begin to understand how to gain, reinforce, and apply wisdom and, in turn, become wiser as a society.   The Center for Practical Wisdom connects scientists, scholars, educators, and students  internationally who are interested in studying and understanding wisdom, and it provides guidance and support for learning about wisdom research, initiates new wisdom research, and disseminates the findings of such research. The Center works to increase public interest in wisdom, in increasing personal wisdom, and in the notion that our institutions could become wiser. As a Center, we focus on both increasing an understanding of wise reasoning from a scientific perspective, as well as trying to understand how wisdom can have benefits for society generally. The Center supports research on wise reasoning and specifically focuses on how experience can increase wise reasoning.  From this perspective, we believe that wisdom is something that develops with experience and that perhaps, almost everyone could be a little wiser.” Episode Notes Lesson 1. It’s wiser to listen than to speak 07:33 Lesson 2. Asking questions is wiser than lecturing 11:24 Lesson 3. Wisdom requires understanding others 14:39 Lesson 4. Grasp the vastness of your ignorance. 21:08 Lesson 5. Curiosity fuels wisdom. 27:25 Lesson 6. Gratitude can lead to wisdom 33:48 Lesson 7. Try a little harder, try a little longer. 38:15 Lesson 8. Reflect before acting; reflect after acting. 41:42 Lesson 9. Think about making wiser decisions rather than being wiser 44:12 Lesson 10. Wisdom is a skill you can learn 47:37

Professor Howard C. Nusbaum shares why " It’s wiser to listen than to speak ", how " Curiosity fuels wisdom ", how " Wisdom is a skill you can learn " and other lessons it took me 50 Years to Learn. Hosted by Duff Watkins   About Professor Howard C. Nusbaum PhD <a href="https://wisdomcenter.uchicago.edu/people/howard-c-nusbaum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Howard C. Nusbaum</a> is currently the Director of the <a href="https://wisdomcenter.uchicago.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom</a> and Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He has recently returned from serving as the Division Director for the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in the Directorate of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Science Foundation</a>. His research is on the psychology, neurobiology, and comparative biology of language use, the role of sleep in learning, attention and working memory, and the neurobiology of economic decisions. He is the director of the <a href="https://apexlab.uchicago.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">APEX Lab </a>(Attention, Perception, and EXperience lab) where they study speech perception and music perception as auditory skills, perception as a cognitive system interconnected with other psychological systems, and how wiser decisions arise from experiences supporting an interaction of intellectual virtues such as epistemic humility, reflection, curiosity, and perseverance with moral virtues. “The mission of the Center is to deepen our scientific understanding of wisdom and its role in the decisions and choices that affect everyday life. We want to understand how an individual develops wisdom and the circumstances and situations in which people are most likely to make wise decisions. We hope that, by deepening our scientific understanding of wisdom, we will also begin to understand how to gain, reinforce, and apply wisdom and, in turn, become wiser as a society.   The Center for Practical Wisdom connects scientists, scholars, educators, and students  internationally who are interested in studying and understanding wisdom, and it provides guidance and support for learning about wisdom research, initiates new wisdom research, and disseminates the findings of such research. The Center works to increase public interest in wisdom, in increasing personal wisdom, and in the notion that our institutions could become wiser. As a Center, we focus on both increasing an understanding of wise reasoning from a scientific perspective, as well as trying to understand how wisdom can have benefits for society generally. The Center supports research on wise reasoning and specifically focuses on how experience can increase wise reasoning.  From this perspective, we believe that wisdom is something that develops with experience and that perhaps, almost everyone could be a little wiser.” Episode Notes Lesson 1. It’s wiser to listen than to speak 07:33 Lesson 2. Asking questions is wiser than lecturing 11:24 Lesson 3. Wisdom requires understanding others 14:39 Lesson 4. Grasp the vastness of your ignorance. 21:08 Lesson 5. Curiosity fuels wisdom. 27:25 Lesson 6. Gratitude can lead to wisdom 33:48 Lesson 7. Try a little harder, try a little longer. 38:15 Lesson 8. Reflect before acting; reflect after acting. 41:42 Lesson 9. Think about making wiser decisions rather than being wiser 44:12 Lesson 10. Wisdom is a skill you can learn 47:37

Professor Howard Nusbaum–You won’t be wise without understanding others

What is the value of wisdom in the time of the global pandemic? Does the community of behavioural scientists studying wisdom agree on anything about the nature of wisdom? Can we say what we now know about wisdom and, conversely, what do we know we don’t yet know? Howard Nusbaum joins Igor and Charles to discuss the recently assembled Toronto Wisdom Task Force and the resulting Common Wisdom Model, meta-cognition, the thorny issue of moral-grounding, and sage advice regarding how to measure wisdom in the lab. Igor stresses the importance of building solid theoretical foundations for the field in the context of the pandemic, Howard reflects on the viability of evil wisdom, and Charles learns that we had better pay close attention today to the values we program into the decision-making robots of tomorrow. Welcome to Episode 29.Special Guest: Howard Nusbaum.Links:The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2A Common Model Is Essential for a Cumulative Science of Wisdom: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2University of Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom | Center for Practical Wisdom | The University of ChicagoWisdom in Context - Igor Grossmann, 2017Toronto Wisdom Task Force Meeting 2019 (edited) - YouTubeAI Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

What is the value of wisdom in the time of the global pandemic? Does the community of behavioural scientists studying wisdom agree on anything about the nature of wisdom? Can we say what we now know about wisdom and, conversely, what do we know we don’t yet know? Howard Nusbaum joins Igor and Charles to discuss the recently assembled Toronto Wisdom Task Force and the resulting Common Wisdom Model, meta-cognition, the thorny issue of moral-grounding, and sage advice regarding how to measure wisdom in the lab. Igor stresses the importance of building solid theoretical foundations for the field in the context of the pandemic, Howard reflects on the viability of evil wisdom, and Charles learns that we had better pay close attention today to the values we program into the decision-making robots of tomorrow. Welcome to Episode 29.Special Guest: Howard Nusbaum.Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1750917" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2</a></li><li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1750920" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Common Model Is Essential for a Cumulative Science of Wisdom: Psychological Inquiry: Vol 31, No 2</a></li><li><a href="https://wisdomcenter.uchicago.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom | Center for Practical Wisdom | The University of Chicago</a></li><li><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691616672066" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wisdom in Context - Igor Grossmann, 2017</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGxVBEoebU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toronto Wisdom Task Force Meeting 2019 (edited) - YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/?cn-reloaded=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI Open Letter - Future of Life Institute</a></li></ul>

29: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum)