Average Is Over: Transcend Stagnation & Empower Economic Growth with Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. With colleague Alex Tabarrok, Cowen is coauthor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and cofounder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution

A dedicated writer and communicator of economic ideas, Cowen is the author of several bestselling books and is widely published in academic journals and the popular media. His latest book is Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World and he is a columnist with Bloomberg View. Cowen is also the host of Conversations with Tyler, a popular podcast series featuring today's most underrated thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between.

Cowen graduated from George Mason University with a BS in economics and received his PhD in economics from Harvard University.

ABOUT THE EPISODE:
In this episode, you will learn about:
Intro (0:00)
Impact of Self Motivation In Young People (2:21)
Getting Better At Knowing How To Get Better (3:48)
Stagnation In Healthcare, Housing, & Education (5:49)
Nuclear Energy (15:14)
The State of The Economy (17:20)
Initiatives That Would Progress The U.S (20:51)
The Mental State of America (24:35)
What Tyler's Day Looks Like (29:38)
Tech Progress (33:52)
Smart People Should Build Things (38:52)
Worker Mental Health Crisis (40:30)
How To Effectively Mobilize Talent (41:59)
Old People Getting Younger Mentors (44:26)
Research Genie Question (46:15)
How To Improve Discovered Talent (47:24)

RESOURCES
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STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.
His books include The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and The Rise of Superman. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

[AdamGeest]

In order for our reading process to exponentiate we have to have first read enough to establish the lattice work of mental models and context needed to increase retention rate during the reading process-- It being implicitly understood that this increased retention rate would both inspire and facilitate further reading still. So, I'm not clear how Cowen was able to ride the exponential curve from his childhood to the present the whole way? You would have to first read enough to establish the context needed to increase your retention rate before riding the Curve ... before reaching the so-called knee of the Curve.

[ohedd]

Step 1: get off nuclear
Step 2: increase dependence on Russian gas
Step 3: turn to coal as the tyrant turns off the tap
Step 4: remain defiant and continue to get off nuclear

Absolute insanity. No other word for it.