Music to go with each chapter
Megan made a list of songs that reflect the theme of each chapter.
Here it is:
Chapter 1: The Truth About Relativity: Why Everything is Relative Even When it Shouldn’t Be
- A Little Bit More (Jamie Lidell)
Chapter 2: The Fallacy of Supply & Demand: Why the Price of pearls – and everything else is up in the air
- Masterfade (Andrew Bird)
Chapter 3: The Cost of Zero Cost: Why We Pay to Much When We Pay Nothing
- Saved By Zero (The Fixx)
Chapter 4: The Cost of Social Norms: Why We Are Happy to do Things, but Not When We are Paid to do Them
- Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper)
Chapter 5: The Influence of Arousal: Why Hot is Much Hotter Than We Realize
- Sexx Laws (Beck)
Chapter 6: The Problem of Procrastination and Self-Control: Why We Can’t Make Ourselves Do What We Want to Do
- I Should Get Up (Teddy Thompson)
Chapter 7: The High Price of Ownership: Why We Overvalue What We Have
- This House is Not For Sale (Ryan Adams)
Chapter 8: Keeping Doors Open: Why Options Distract Us From Our Main Objective
- Burn the Boats (Early Edison)
Chapter 9: The Effect of Expectations: Why Our Mind Gets What it Expects
- We Can Work it Out (The Beatles)
Chapter 10: The Power of Price: Why a 50-Cent Asprin Can Do What a Penny Asprin Can’t
- Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine (The White Stripes)
Chapter 11: The Context of Our Character (1): Why We Don’t Always Know When We Are Being Dishonest
- Cheat (The Clash)
Chapter 12: The Context of Our Character (2): Why Dealing With Cash Makes Us More Honest
- Honesty (Billy Joel)
Chapter 13: Beer and Free Lunches: How Understanding Irrationality Can Lead to Better Living
- Human Behavior (Bjork)
The Upside of Irrationality, explores some positive and some negative ways that irrationality plays out in our lives.
Hey Dan,
Thanks for writing “Predictably”. I heard your interview with Rich Schefren and went out to buy it immediately. Other stuff:
1) I’m a bus. coach and I have a client with No Slip floors treatment – to prevent falls. I also put together a list of related songs and want to put it on his website – to tie in with his services. Do you know what’s needed to give a “sampling of the song” on the website. Like on your chapters above, could you easily have a few opening bars (a link) on the songs you’ve listed? That would definitely get people more engaged.
2) When I was at Wesleyan Univ. (CT) as an undergrad we conducted Psychology experiments. As an experimenter I noticed that we could unconsciously bias the testing by using attractive coeds or boring nerds as experimenters. This always influenced the behavior of our test subjects. Were you sure to control for this? When I was in Grad School at Stanford, when Phil Zimbardo did his (in)famous experiments with the prisoners and guards – we learned quite a bit.