Podcast HackHow to Get Better at Being WrongBy Everyday Better, Leah Smart, Alex Edmans
In a Nutshell
In this July 2025 episode of the Everyday Better podcast, researcher and professor Alex Edmans breaks down common mental biases and shares the steps to becoming more open-minded.
Favorite Quote
To grab somebody, you need to give a black and white statement with little nuance. So it could be, 'The Five Foods You Must Avoid,' or 'The Five Things You Must Do to Get Your Kid Into Harvard' … Nuance is not going to be something as arresting, so we reduce the complexity.
Alex Admans
Introduction
In a media landscape that consistently lacks nuance, learning how to be wrong is a dying skill.
In this July 2025 episode of LinkedIn's Everyday Better podcast, host Leah Smart talks to Alex Edmans about how we can challenge our biases and become better critical thinkers.
Edmans is a finance professor at London Business School and the author of May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Facts Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It.
The Everyday Better podcast is a personal development show hosted by LinkedIn senior editor and self-improvement coach Leah Smart.
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