- Have Claude 3 Opus summarize
- Tomoya Tachikawa
- Tachikawa and Nishio discuss how people react when they are told good or appropriate advice.
- First, Mr. Tachikawa talked about his experience of getting in trouble when confronted with a good argument.
- For example, when he told a junior student his advice to study for an exam for 12 hours every day to improve his grade, the junior student looked troubled.
- Nishio pointed out that even if those advices are correct, they will not be effective if they are not timed correctly or do not match the situation.
- Advice is raw, expressing that if you don’t give it at the right time, it will rot.
- He also analyzed the reasons for not accepting the advice honestly, because the cost of the effort is perceived as large or the return is estimated to be small.
- From there, the topic evolved to the fact that people tend to make “Pessimistic Misconceptions.
- We discussed the tendency to estimate the cost of things larger than they actually are and the return smaller than they are, which may be inhibiting the challenge of trying new things.
- Finally, Ms. Nishio introduced her experience of participating in the mystery solving event recommended by Mr. Tachikawa.
- Mr. Tachikawa’s information raised his expectations of the fun of solving the riddles and he decided to participate.
- He said the actual experience was more interesting than he had imagined and the returns were significant.
- Throughout, the message was that it is important to appropriately raise expectations and start with small steps by providing information in order to correct people’s misconceptions and encourage them to try new things.
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