Convos (Blog)
Applied creativity and inventive thinking for regular people in everyday life.
The IKEA Effect
It is not uncommon to have an affection for the things we build. Juliet Funt, High Performance Expert, calls this tendency as “The IKEA Effect.” In short, we like what we built because we were involved in building it. And the opposite is true: We like what other people built less, because we did not play a role in building it. This bias clouds our thinking.
Over Confident Intern
Stop me if you’ve heard this, but during a recent conference presentation I heard a speaker describe Generative AI (i.e., ChatGPT and all the cousins) as an over-confident intern. It made me chuckle – and then I realized that I quite like that characterization.