#401 - Rory Sutherland - The Psychology Of Transport, Google Maps & Bear Attacks
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#401 - Rory Sutherland - The Psychology Of Transport, Google Maps & Bear Attacks
Rory Sutherland on Lenny’s Podcast:
Products like Meta Portal TV, Google Glass, Japanese toilets, and wine boxes were amazing products but something about the timing or the marketing was wrong and the consumer never bit
Rory on Japanese toilets: “I think it’s barbaric that the Western Hemisphere dry wipes.”
The reason most people adopt new technology
Logic requires that people find universal laws, but outside of scientific fields and once human psychology has a role to play, it is perfectly possible for behavior to become contradictory.... See more
A tax rise can cause you to work less because the returns of your labor are lower, or work harder to maintain your present level of
If you want to change people’s behaviour, listening to their rational explanation for their behaviour may be misleading, because it isn’t ‘the real why’.
The human mind does not run on logic any more than a horse runs on petrol.