Book 1 : Switch

My first impression to the lesson was: wow this is great. I am a mathematics graduate and it seems that this kind of lesson was different and I was not used to, but I loved it and I wish I will not miss any lessons. I was the type of “fixed mind” person; my choices were 1 and 3. It was totally true I really am that type of person, I can do things differently, I like to change things time after time but in my mind the bases and the most important part is hard to be changed.

During the lesson we talked about “decision paralysis”, and such a thing happened to me lastly. It is not the husband case because I solved this problem early, undergraduation period, and this is because I listen to much to “my elephant” :). Coming to my case: I went to have a look at the new collections of wedding dresses, the catalogues had arrived but the dresses not yet. Before going to the shop, I had an idea in my mind and I was going to look at that model, but the seller there showed me 5 new catalogues and they were full of new models. I was there for 2 hours looking at them and at the end my mind was so confused, I was like lost, changed my initial idea, and in fact I felt like sick, overloaded. So I went out and told the sellers there, please next time don’t show me so much choices because I cannot get out of, it is so difficult to choose one. They gave me a solution, you can take more than one, take three and it will be ok they said, seller’s solution J

Another “subtopic” that I would like to mention is the story of “chocolates and radishes”, I thought that it may be some like equivalent to the case of wages / salaries of people in a company. I think that in a company one of the most important components that make a company successful is its labor. In order that people work harder their boss should apply bonus wages or wage premium to their employees, or may be different ideas that can make employees’ “elephants” happy, for ex. a vacation, trip. In this way, he can be happy himself since he will get better results at his company. It seems that this became a “point the destination” example, but in my opinion, I think that “motivating the elephant”, making it happy, is the key to change the behavior and reach the success.