The way you make patients ‘partners’ is by having enough empathy and insight into what life looks like to them and to know how to find a way in. It’s also how to get the patient to lose weight, exercise, quit smoking and stop drinking. A doctor may have a set of rules for how to diagnose cardiac disease, but the question is not just diagnosing the disease. You can’t craft rules and incentives to make allowances for the incredible diversity of situations that you face. We think that in any domain of life that involves interaction between human beings, there is no set of rules and there is no set of incentives you can design that will get you what you actually want and need, because people are different. If we force you to do the right thing with the threat of various kinds of sanctions, you'll do the right thing. If we make it worth your while to do the right thing, you'll do the right thing. This incentive side is entirely embraced by economists and adopted from economics. Schwartz: What we think in modern America and most modern states is that we can get what we want and need if we only come up with the right set of rules, bureaucratic structures and procedures and/or the right set of incentives. Jean: What do you feel is wrong with our current systems and institutions, and how may they benefit from practical wisdom?ĭr. Schwartz discusses how generalized incentives fail to enact change in human behavior, and describes his approach to teaching students about the importance of wisdom, and how practical wisdom may be cultivated in professional training programs through hands-on, real world experiences and mentorship. His book Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to do the Right Thing, co-authored with Kenneth Sharpe addresses how to identify and cultivate wisdom and make ourselves healthier and wiser. He appeared on the “ Colbert Report” shortly after his book A Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less was released. As one of the most notable public scholars on wisdom, his TED talks on wisdom and on choice collectively have been viewed more than ten million times. His interests lie in the intersection between economics, morality and psychology. As a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College for 45 years, Barry Schwartz, PhD has focused his work on decision making, wisdom, and work satisfaction.
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