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—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exceptional Performance: Innate Talent, Dedicated Practice, or Superhuman Effort?
David Krueger MD What most fundamentally underlies remarkable intellectual and athletic feats? Softball pitcher Jennie Finch was a gold medal winner in the 2004 Olympics. She challenged the best batters in professional baseball to hit her pitches. Major league...
How Can You Help Someone Change Their Mind?
David Krueger, M.D. We all want to help a client or colleague see things in an objective and informed way. To listen together to their unfolding story and collaboratively examine the 90-95% of their operating system that is unconscious and often contains biases,...
Performance Science Meets Intuition
David Krueger MD The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein I experienced a particular kind of energy being in the room at Chateau du...
What Do You Expect? On Neuroscience and Coronavirus
David Krueger MD Every time we experience something and don’t encounter a negative outcome, we get the wrong impression that it’s safer than we thought it was. Dan Ariely Many years ago, when I was coaching a weekend basketball team, one of the guys I’ll call Pete had...
Coronavirus Omission Bias
David Krueger MD In a fairly well-known psychological experiment, subjects were asked the following question: “Imagine that there had been several epidemics of a certain kind of flu that everyone contracts that can be fatal to children 3 years of age or younger....
The Negative Wealth Effect Revisited
David Krueger MD I was talking with the owner of one of our favorite antique stores in an area close to our weekend ranch. He said, “People are just not spending money.” The downtown area of the little town was somewhat dead, and the nursery we frequently visit had...
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