Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions | David Asch
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2019
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Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk, behavioral economist and health policy expert David Asch explains why our behavior is often irrational -- in highly predictable ways -- and shows how we can harness this irrationality to make better decisions and improve our health care system overall.
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you know what's best way to build a muscle? don't think of it as if I work out, I'm going to gain a muscle. rather, think of it as If I don't work out, I will be losing the muscle I built. That's the loss aversion he's talking about
this guy added deadpan charm and subtle jokes into his speech so flawlessly and seamlessly.
Even deciding to watch this healthy clip was hard😂
I first thought it would be about how tasty food is unhealthy. But then he started with that accident and that grounded me and made me watch the rest.
Lmao yes
But I mean it was rational wasn't it
true
It's hard to make healthy decisions because the corporations pump out so much false information in order to sell us their unhealthy products. I still can't believe the sugar industry years ago was literally creating ads telling us High Fructose Corn Syrup was just a sweeter sugar made by hard working Americans and not an unhealthy food. The meat industry is also notorious for it's propaganda on turning meat into a health food we all need a small amount of daily.
„Hard work pays off in the future, but laziness pays off right now.“ Lol true
😂 that's good.
no
@@TheNiceGuy71 why not?
@@TheNiceGuy71 no sense
@@Anna_Helena hard work pays off in the future, until you start gambling
I have Lupus and have been struggling to change my bad habits. I know what's good and what's bad... but I isolate myself so its easy to cheat when no one us around to hold you accountable.... after two pulmonary embolisms that nearly killed me, I know I have to make some drastic changes, but it's so much easier said than done. I really needed to hear this Tedtalk today. Amazing job!!!
I can relate so much. Even when so sick, I still only manage to change some, but not all I need to. I loved this ted too.
I’m sorry to hear that but I was never really sick. I just know the difference between doing good and wanting good. So I give you this advice I did for myself before I knew much about anything. You can’t carry out a plan without a purpose. So when I wanted to become a vegan I got a journal that’s filled with so much wisdom . I drew a circle saying “ why should I want to be a vegan “ and I wrote down all the reason facts and opinions. My reason and others . And I promise you I cut out other foods that same day been a vegan since . You are so used to your old habits subconsciously tho you know it’s wrong you continue because you don’t see it everyday where it tell you every reason why you should be healthy . Don’t get upset for minor set backs coz I feel like it helps us, it shapes up . All I have to say is it’s a self discipline type of thing 🤷🏽♀️ hope you conquer it because the system is made to keep us low .
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There was a Berenstain Bear story where Gran helps Sister quit biting her nails. They put 10 pennies in her pocket to jingle around all day at school, reminding her not to bite. Then at the end of the day, she has to give back as many as the number of nails she bit. A lesson for kids in loss aversion.
imagine you know the day of your death and everything you do will increase or decrease the clock that is ticking. Being honest is so unnatural to our subconscious it is insane how we convince ourselves we live forever every single day.
King Sometimes it hits me that the chance of me getting cancer (as a woman) is 1 in 3, and that is just cancer.. So I’m not even thinking about any other disease or condition. And then I imagine sitting at that doctor’s office and getting the news, and instantly I feel the thought going through my head: what could I have done better to prevent this? Cancer is easier to prevent than to treat, and that is something to keep in mind. Not to sound depressing ;) but yes, your immortality is very real, and even though I try to accept that as part of life, I also try to feel like I am doing my best to stay healthy as long as I can.
P.s. I an not suggesting that anyone who gets cancer did that to themselves. I have seen cancer around me a lot, and I just mean to say that taking care of your health will at least give you that peace of mind.... Then it’s all up to higher powers.
Where was this when I was taking my exam in a hospital administration course? Thank you so much for this video.
Great presentation! Going to search for more of your content! 🙌🏼📈
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this is one of those one in a hundred TED talks.
I love that “dr. Evil” gesture 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻
This is my new fav!! Thank you for the invaluable info and clarifications!
Seat belt saved my life!, but you'll never be rid of those people who will throw out that counter argument about how seat belts have killed some people. To that comment I say this, " You do what you choose at your own peril, just do not endanger or convince other's to join you in your stupidity"
He makes such good points and puts it into a perspective that not many people think about. We always try to reward people for doing things, but when we frame it as the potential of a loss, people are more inclined to do the activity because they are afraid of loss. I never really thought of it this way but it is so true! He approaches a great problem in healthcare which is compliance with treatment plans and taking charge of one's own health. Everyone is always told to eat healthier, exercise more, or take this prescription, vitamin, or physical therapy workout. Do people actually follow through? I have met tons of people that completely disregard it and continue doing what they are currently doing. By being aware of this and incorporating psychology into one's medical practice could emphasize the ethical principal of beneficence which is to act in the patients best interest. If we are always thinking about how to better serve our patients, then figuring out way for them to comply with treatment and improve their health is essential.
I have experienced many physicians myself that only tell me what to do, but never explain the why, what could be loss, or put it in a way where I feel like I need to comply. It does feel a little bit like manipulation though, persuading them towards doing an action that is not their preferred course of action which goes against the ethical principle autonomy, but again, it is reframing a situation for the benefit of the patient and the mutual goal of getting healthier. I do like how he also incorporated leading by example and using social influence. I think that physicians need to keep this in mind because it is hard for a physician who is overweight and unhealthy to tell a patient that they should eat and workout better. It also leads to decrease in compliance because if their physician is doing that, they believe they can too. If the physician is fit and healthy, and everyone around them are, then maybe it is that "feeling left out" mentality that will push them to change their behavior and be more motivated to improve their health with positive support.
After watching this video my new year message for all my loved ones is to watch a Ted talk everyday relligiously 🙏
ted always blown my mind. inspiring!
So interesting point if view, thank you
Best quote:
“If I see a fly, I’m gunna get that fly”...with my weener.
Present bias:
Immediate outcomes more motivating than more important outcomes in the future
Tips for making healthy decisions:
1. Harnessing the hate regret from the future/notions of regret
2. Loss Aversion
3. Social interactions/influences and make activities observable to others
Money's disadvantages as a motivator:
A counter-effect by substituting intrinsic motivation for monetary rewards
Do not fight against/ignore our irrational self; instead harness our irrationality and work with it
This was a great talk TED. Back on track, back on track..
One healthy decision people could make would be to stay out of my woods, but they still come in here
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Yeah, if only people could GeT OuT oF mY sWaMP
Lol I keep seeing you in random videos I watch 😂
@@MsArizonaGrown who?
@@Sadiquecat just some Bigfoot with internet
Loved the video! Informational and funny.
Other times it's the doctors being irrational. For example, a doctor once told a disabled friend, who lives on less than 700 dollars a month, to buy more fresh produce and lean meats, and also some very expensive vitamins, as well as medication. She was literally unable to follow these instructions, but the doc insisted she could afford to do it if she really wanted to be healthy. Another doc prescribed a friend so much physical therapy and rest that my friend would have lost his job if he'd followed the doctor's orders. I get that the doctors were prescribing the healthiest option, but it is not helpful to instruct patients to do things that are not really doable. I mean, if my friend had lost his job, he'd have lost access to food, housing, AND that doctor.
David Asch great talk! It was so relatable, funny, and easy to understand! You used so many helpful examples. This has been an all around fantastic 17 minute learning experience! Thank you!
Very interesting TED talk. Interesting how he takes on Enlightenment's hyper-obsession with rationality at the end. And he uses the fundamentals of behavioral economics and psychology to do so. Starting at around 14:50 where he talks about Batman and the role of social influence and then gets deeper in his critique of Enlightenment rationality as the be all and end all of human decision-making..
Very nice your advice. .
Thanks a lot
Informative talk were given, thank you.
*was
Me: Planning to have KFC later for lunch.
Ted: Here, watch this.
Me: Darn it, Universe. It was just KFC!
Excellent presentation great 👍🏻 info and wonderful speaker A+
Incredible talk!
This so interesting, #DavidAsch!!
Love this talk
Great talk!! And it is true!!!! 😀😀👍🏻
Me 16 minutes and 53 seconds ago: "We should add lootcrates to healthcare"
Me now: *"OH MY GOD... ABSOLUTE MADMAN"*
What a great talk
Best in quite a while
I hope everyone has a great day ❤️
This was so insightful and entertaining. It reminded me of a book I read 'Predictably Irrational' by Dan Ariely.
@Earthly Fireflies what a beautiful way of putting it.
This man is my professor and I can confirm that he's even funnier in person.
Amazing speech! By the way, at 8:29 That "that's awesome !" read my mind ajajaja
"Losses loom larger than gains..."
This explains why it's so much easier to do a hard workout when you're in public (gym or class, for example.) By yourself at home? Not so much, lol.
Hippie Homesteader Wannabe - it’s the opposite for me.
@@altosack That's interesting. We're all different, lol.
Ty
Nice talk
“Doctors are social animals”
Well I’m not becoming a doctor
It is my first time to watch presentation about behavioral economics other than Dan Ariely.
This man has a master tier sense of humor
Didn't get the generic medication change bit. Can somebody please explain?
Not only are humans irrational, the most rational humans lose out.
I read an analysis of personality types and the salaries they commanded. Rational individuals were the lowest paid.
Like David says here, in among all that irrational behavior is the spark that ignites creativity, courage etc. And those are worth their weight in gold.
Ok, boomer.
Wow a good TED talk, that's a rarity!
This is a sad fact.
Inspired me to see how it works for my kids' allowance
You initially story has more to do with overspecialization and detachment from practical reality do to specifics in his life decisions and directions. John Corzine was born in 1947, given his history, it isn't hard to see where at least the potential for a disconnect begins from seat belt safety as he predates modern initiatives and other habit forming causes. He isn't the only one then, and there are still other now that don't where seat belts.
Dropping intro to economics and socioeconomics from my curriculum was my irrational decision behavioral economics
His name(David Asch) reminds me of Solomon Asch who did the Asch Conformity Experiment in the 1950s. Is he Solomon Asch's son?
What I am concerned with is: how did they find out that people rise the rate of hands washing... if they where not watching?
I'm sure you can install a system that doesn't require cameras for that
or hidden cameras??
probably detect water use and how often soap has to be refreshed or something or towels.
I thought this video was going to be about healthy food decisions 🤔
8:29 someone near the microphone gets it
Bonus for referencing Steven Wright
While I eat a piece of chocolate cake and ice cream. Did you say something about healthy decisions?
Licking spoon clean and everything🙂
I love behavioural economics
I don't think using loss aversion as a motivator is healthy. Sure it works, but at what cost? My sanity? Is there a way to do this *without* being in constant fear of loss?
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:12 🚗 Jon Corzine, exgobernador de Nueva Jersey, sobrevivió a un accidente automovilístico grave sin usar cinturón de seguridad, revelando una debilidad en nuestro enfoque de comportamiento saludable.
02:15 🤔 Cambiar comportamientos de salud es difícil; debemos identificar reflexos de comportamiento y utilizarlos en la atención médica.
03:48 💡 Los economistas del comportamiento reconocen que somos irracionales, pero de manera predecible, lo que permite diseñar estrategias para mejorar la salud.
07:20 💰 Incentivos basados en evitar pérdidas son más efectivos que ganancias para cambiar comportamientos, incluso en la atención médica.
13:48 👥 La influencia social y el temor al juicio de otros son poderosos impulsores del cambio de comportamiento en salud.
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When you do the right thing it doesn't matter what people say or how they end up treating you.
The truth is the truth and a lie is a lie.
NEVER underestimate the power of a gr8 talleywacker joke!😁😎💞
Is watching this at 2 in the morning a healthy decision?
You are a collection of all of your behaviors (healthy or not). Knowledge does not equal Truth. You made your troth.
I am you a week later
Fear of missing out is real. If I turn out to be the only person on my entire floor not winning the lottery, I'd regret it forever
The best part was the picture of eye watching over u over the sink while you were washing your hands....I literally laughed with no one around🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I indeed only wash my hands when other people are around because I wonder what they would think otherwise 😂 busted
🔎❤🧠 this video sums up so much explanation of my life 😎 when I was 6 or so I went to a urinal that had a spinning dial at the bottom, it was a game. I made sure every drop went to spinning that pinwheel 🤣🧠🔎
And the healthcare snafu, yeah.....America is screwed.
I went into Methodist Hospital with Insurance from Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, lo and behold Texas Methodist denies all coverage from this Insurance Institution (all companies engaged in business in Massachusetts pay this entity a fee to cover anyone who has an accident). RAINBOW APPAREL was the company responsible for my accident (faulty ladder with company logo all over it).
Needless to say I have no reflexes in my legs, when the doctor hits my leg with the hammer, I respond with no reflex. It has now been 2 years and I still haven't recieved medical treatment for accident.
“Because bacon dammit!”
Reverend Richard Blanton
So what you're saying is, it would help to post a picture of a scale on my refrigerator so I can envision the weight loss goals I am supposed to be working towards.
Just be intentional when looking at ppl and think to yourself that you will have that figure in few months, if you will stick to diet. Why do observe normal pll, not pll on TV etc? Because normal ppl are real, not silicone.
13:35 I thought he was gonna say "fat shaming"
“I’m gonna get that fly”
It is possible to train reflexes, consider marshal arts! Rather than lecturing, perhaps one needs to encourage and watch repetitions of behaviour, which then become reflexes. That is actually the way we all "learned" to put on our seatbelts! We "automatically" put on our seat belts when we get into the car. We don't have to think about it.
8:30 Listen 😂😂
Gamechanger.
Losses loom larger than gains.
8:29 mooooood
So watching this were trying to solve our problems with knowledge we already have, to change our behaviour
Was someone able to derive from this video how I can convince myself to eat less?
Eat 2 cups of raw brussel sprouts before eating what you want.
On the stairway to heaven: "You could have gotten the 50 million, but you didn't want to pay your 8 dollars a month fee for the chance to win it."
High BP, can be solved by banning extra additional sodium to food.
God I fucking love behavioral economics
hmmm
There are too many options. It's not easy to take the high road away from McDonalds.
Minnesota Prepper yeah it is. They aren’t poisoning me
God, the gods, karma, ego...pick one...pick all...work in mysterious ways. I mean no Ill will. 💖
So who made this first. This guy or Dan Ariely? Seems they both presented the same exact thing within a few days of each other
I think that's just the date the videos were published on UA-cam. This talk was originally from Dec 2018 and Ariely's talk on How to Change Your Behavior is from June 2019.
@@beenheretoolong yet they posted both of them. Seems confusing that they would just give them both the same credit if one stole the others talk.
This is case and point why China is filled with almost entirety un monitored CCTV camera. For most people, if they think they are being watched they do the right thing.
Smoke. Smoke. A lot of smoke.
Holy crap... That trick with avoiding loss is a parenting gold mine...
Having trouble with "isert child name here" not doing his homework?
-Tell him he loses X amount of his allowance for every task he fails to do.
And of course don't punish the kid for failing, but instead punish him for not trying... We all fail, just keep trying - atleast that's the spirit I intend to pass on.
That is not going to work with many. You have given the child a choice as to whether they wish to do something that, as a parent, you want to require them to do. Works the same way with paying kids to do their chores. If they do not care about money, you've left the door open to them saying, nope, not doing chores, don't care if I have money or not.
My opinion is that everyone has chores and everyone does them because it's a benefit to the family. If a child refuses, there are other disciplines available such as losing screen time or another privilege that they do care about.
Anyhow, just my two cents worth.
Why do something today, when someone will do it for you tomorrow
Hard work will pay off in the future, laziness pays off now.
Small probabilities are over valued
Lottery
Regret
Medications taken
Default generic
Walk
Use social #influence
Loss aversion
Be #rational
I'm gonna get that damn fly!
When he mentioned we’re on our best behavior when being observed it made me think of all the hot chicks I see picking their noses and eating it at red lights when they think no one is watching lmfaoooo!!! 😂
We can always blame Russia...
Fruit, chips and tractors. It's all about the split and tickles.
@Earthly Fireflies It is better to know less than necessary than to know more than necessary. Do not fear the lack of knowledge, but truly fear unnecessary knowledge which is acquired only to please vanity.
@Earthly Fireflies the journey that it is a part of
@Earthly Fireflies you need help and your channel proves it. Goodbye
@Earthly Fireflies no, just indians and Pakistanis.
Because carrots dont taste like BigMacs
I am the Seat of Wisdom the Virgin Mary !
ua-cam.com/video/tPBFVIxnbDw/v-deo.html < that ted talk was uploaded two days ago and it's almost identical to this one, even the examples are almost the same. wtf?
batman lover
Why are the comments always so stupid on TED videos?