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Tim Harford: belief

12 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics

“Like anything, there’s a sweet spot and it’s possible to overdo it, but I think that people fear multiple projects more than they should.”

— Tim Harford

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Tim Harford
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
12 Feb 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…You never lose momentum, right? You always feel you’re moving forward on something. Yes. There is a risk of losing momentum. It is possible to overdo the multitasking and to just lose your thread with these different projects. Like anything, there’s a sweet spot and it’s possible to overdo it, but I think that people fear multiple projects more than they should. If you can organize your thinking in a reasonable way, you can have a lot of different projects on the go and get a lot out of that. What is your philosophy of fish and chips?…

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