The Colonoscopy That Felt Fine

About this episode

The episode discusses Daniel Kahneman's insights on memory and decision-making through a unique colonoscopy experience.

A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist once convinced a room full of doctors to deliberately do nothing for three minutes in the middle of a colonoscopy — and in doing so, he may have saved a number of lives. This is the story of Daniel Kahneman, a tub of cold water, a great many students who were paid ten dollars to suffer, and the Peak-End Rule: the faintly alarming discovery that we do not remember our lives as we actually lived them. We remember the worst bit, and the last bit, and we throw m...

Topics covered

• psychology
• memory
• healthcare
• decision making
• colonoscopy

Keywords

• Kahneman
• Peak-End Rule
• memory
• colonoscopy
• psychology

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