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21:46The Train Experiment: We Are Terrible at Predicting Social InteractionsSean O'Shea: Yeah. And you can do big macro things or tiny micro things. You know, big macro things are, you know, Apple redesigning their headquarters. So it's that circular shape where all the things you need, like theEP 309 · 11 Jun 2026·interview· 21:46–29:540:00Introducing Patrick Fagan and his year of 52 new thingsAl Elliott: We want you to meet Patrick Fagan. He's a behavioural scientist, a bestselling author, and the guy who spent a year deliberately making himself really uncomfortable Patrick Fagan: I take the science of psychoEP 227 · 28 Aug 2025·intro· 0:00–4:234:23Why Patrick started his 52-week experimentLeanne Elliott: So, this experiment feels like a bit of a pivot then from what your normal work is. So, tell us a bit more about it, where the idea come from and your motivation for wanting to try it Patrick Fagan: Yeah,EP 227 · 28 Aug 2025·interview· 4:23–7:1820:29Incrementalism — how to start your own experimentLeanne Elliott: I know our listeners, I know some are gonna be thinking, this is really cool, I'm gonna try one new thing every week. There'll be others going, I've got kids, I've got a full-time job, I've not got the tiEP 227 · 28 Aug 2025·interview· 20:29–23:3435:22Was Patrick actually happier after a year of novelty?Leanne Elliott: I have to ask you about your whole experience and kind of its impact on your happiness. Were you happier? Patrick Fagan: Well, I mean, I was very unhappy to begin with. So yeah, in that sense, yeah, definEP 227 · 28 Aug 2025·interview· 35:22–37:136:49Live experiment: putting Al through Myers-BriggsLeanne Elliott: And maybe just see how you respond to it, Al, perhaps. We can have a demonstration, might help our listeners understand where we're coming from Al Elliott: Okay. And I mean, just the test itself was fairlEP 06 · 2 Aug 2022·other· 6:49–9:52
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