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#096: How Cognitive Biases affect media consumption - Dan Monheit
Category: Business
Duration: 01:07:42
Publish Date: 2018-12-10 18:00:00
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Dan Monheit (
@DanMonheit
) is the Co-Founder and Director of Strategy at creative agency Hardhat, Co-Host of the Bad Decisions Podcast, MC of lecture series Real Big Things and a self-confessed sneakerhead.

As I’ve said in our previous episode, Dan truly embodies the archetype that is “Chutzpah” - combine that with his need for incessant learning on cognition and you have one impressive media brain. From small beginnings lecturing at Monash University, to jumping straight into his own agency, Dan is full of that entrepreneurial spirit we see common amongst our guests. Couple that with running a podcast, a series of lectures with a fascinating premise and running the strategy of HardHat - you have an immovable force in a rapidly changing industry.

His thirst for cognitive biases is fascinating to me, being that I’m also obsessed with psychology. This was a great catch-up episode that allowed us to go much deeper on those specific topics, where we discussed:

  • Talking about podcast setups

  • The Benjamin Franklin Effect

  • The Six Second Film Festival

  • Indulging in curiosity through multiple projects

  • Real Big Things, running events

  • Ad agencies and the value of brands

  • The future challenges & what hasn’t changed in media

  • Behavioural economics & cognitive biases

  • Differentiation between co-founders

  • Leaders he respects in the ad space


SHOW NOTES

01:17 - Introduction

04:15 - Podcast setups

06:01 - The Benjamin Franklin Effect

07:52 - The Six Second Film Festival

15:23 - Indulging in curiosity through multiple projects

17:39 - Real Big Things, running events

20:53 - Ad agencies and the value of brands

26:12 - The future challenges in media

30:33 - What hasn’t changed in media

33:24 - Behavioral economics in advertising

37:45 - Cognitive biases

45:01 - Applying and understanding biases

48:01 - Growing a small agency

55:47 - Differentiation between co-founders

01:01:08 - Leaders he respects in the ad space

01:02:14 - Exercise routine

01:02:43 - If he had to do a Real Big Things talk on something different

01:04:21 - What is obvious to him, but not to others

01:05:15 - A quote he lives by


MORE ABOUT DAN


THINGS MENTIONED (in order of episode) 


    
Dan Monheit (@DanMonheit) is the Co-Founder and Director of Strategy at creative agency Hardhat, Co-Host of the Bad Decisions Podcast, MC of lecture series Real Big Things and a self-confessed sneakerhead.
As I’ve said in our previous episode, Dan truly embodies the archetype that is “Chutzpah” - combine that with his need for incessant learning on cognition and you have one impressive media brain. From small beginnings lecturing at Monash University, to jumping straight into his own agency, Dan is full of that entrepreneurial spirit we see common amongst our guests. Couple that with running a podcast, a series of lectures with a fascinating premise and running the strategy of HardHat - you have an immovable force in a rapidly changing industry.
His thirst for cognitive biases is fascinating to me, being that I’m also obsessed with psychology. This was a great catch-up episode that allowed us to go much deeper on those specific topics, where we discussed:
  • Talking about podcast setups
  • The Benjamin Franklin Effect
  • The Six Second Film Festival
  • Indulging in curiosity through multiple projects
  • Real Big Things, running events
  • Ad agencies and the value of brands
  • The future challenges & what hasn’t changed in media
  • Behavioural economics & cognitive biases
  • Differentiation between co-founders
  • Leaders he respects in the ad space

SHOW NOTES

01:17 - Introduction

04:15 - Podcast setups

06:01 - The Benjamin Franklin Effect

07:52 - The Six Second Film Festival

15:23 - Indulging in curiosity through multiple projects

17:39 - Real Big Things, running events

20:53 - Ad agencies and the value of brands

26:12 - The future challenges in media

30:33 - What hasn’t changed in media

33:24 - Behavioral economics in advertising

37:45 - Cognitive biases

45:01 - Applying and understanding biases

48:01 - Growing a small agency

55:47 - Differentiation between co-founders

01:01:08 - Leaders he respects in the ad space

01:02:14 - Exercise routine

01:02:43 - If he had to do a Real Big Things talk on something different

01:04:21 - What is obvious to him, but not to others

01:05:15 - A quote he lives by

MORE ABOUT DAN

THINGS MENTIONED (in order of episode)
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