EP 47 Problem Solving Beyond Optimisation

We talk about the importance of learning to look for what is positive. We mention that perhaps as a survival mechanism we have developed certain biases that are helpful when we are young but make thriving more difficult over time. In particular, we mention senescence and the negativity bias. Then, we ask how one may go about solving problems and see that we often tend to use optimisation for that purpose. Indeed, much of our society uses it calling it rhetoric, public rel...