Rogoff on What you won’t find in the Obama book

A great talk by Rogoff on Chess, Economics and art of decision making.

Obama: “I was editor in chief of Harvard Law Review, I don’t want you to mince words here, I want you to be very straight forward, I don’t want to waste time, we have a crisis, … so just be very direct”

Rogoff: “… at some I realized he was yelling at me, … I absolutely thought about being a chess player,… I think chess really really teaches you in a disciplined way just to stay calm and I think I did …”

“One point I tried to get across was that you have to play the position on the board, you can’t think about what blunders you made to get there, where is the position and what do we need to do.” — Rogoff