The Ellsberg Paradox and Why It Is Kinder To Reject Someone
What if the kindest thing you can do for someone is reject them clearly, and the cruelest thing is to keep them hoping?
In this solo episode, recorded from a Poddster booth at the 1 Billion Followers Summit in the UAE, Alice makes the case that a clean "no" beats a soft maybe every time. She opens with the situationship hot and cold, days of silence, then something romantic and the research that ambiguity hurts more than a clear rejection. She calls it the Ellsberg paradox: we prefer known risks to uncertainty.
Her reframe, from client Kelli Thompson: "clarity is kindness, but clarity is…
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