Multiple best selling author and financial strategist Michael Mauboussin (@mjmauboussin) shares his wisdom on parenting, daily routines, reading, and how to make better decisions.

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Welcome to The Knowledge Project, a podcast aimed at upgrading our thinking. The core themes will seem familiar to readers: Decision Making, Leadership, Innovation. But it also touches on questions about what it means to live a good life.

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The first episode of The Knowledge Project features Michael Mauboussin, at the time of this interview he was head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse. He’s also written numerous books, includingMore Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places,Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and most recentlyThe Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing.

More importantly, Mauboussin spends more time thinking about thinking than most people.

In this inaugural episode, we explore:

How Michael structures his day (and which elements are absolutely essential to fit in no matter what’s on his plate)

How “chunking” his time when performing tasks seems to result in a more productive day

What role intuition plays in making big decisions and when it should be minimized

How deliberate practice can help hone our intuition so we can lean on it when it matters

How to audit your decision making process so you continually get better

Effective ways to challenge the status quo in your organization, even if you’re at the bottom of the totem pole

Tools and methods Michael uses with his children to encourage them to think for themselves

How technology affects our decision making processes both positively and negatively

The books that most influenced Michael’s life and why they mean so much to him

And much more.

I hope you enjoy this new format of learning the best of what others have already figured out.

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Books Mentioned

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