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the future with a brilliant harvard physicist. then deep inside the way your mind works and sometimes why it doesn't. fascinating conversation with nobel prize winner daniel kahneman. a big birthday but an awkward time to throw a big birthday bash. i'll explain. first here's my take. it's the start of the new year and we will do predictions on this show. i thought i'd try my own hand at some before asking others to risk their reputations. and in the spirit of keeping myself honest, i'm going to look back at what i said and wrote in "time" magazine at the start of last year and se...

Surprises us, in the first place, we deny the surprise. people don't accept that they're surprised. and we tend to be -- to keep if we have an idea or an ie deology, we tend to stick to it. and people really do not move their opinions much. not only true for congress, it's true for all of us. >> you're saying people areç stubborn? >> yeah. i'm saying they're not listening. they're interpreting the world. they have an interpretation, they stick to it. >> is this a self-preservation thing? what do you think is the origin of the human narrative and human story we all create, all of us, and the ...

It's not necessarily to win the nomination or to win the presidency. it's to be as powerful as he can with that 24% of the electorate in iowa, the tea party faithful. he's going to be a hero to that movement when he flames out, which he inevitably has to. >> what do you make of that answer? which we have to get the particulars here. he did admit his willingness to take a lie detector test. in practically the same sentence, dana, he said, i'm not going to do it, because this isn't a reason to do it. what did that sentence or combination of thoughts mean? this is where we have to get to the way ...

Rock 'n' roll? >> no, i don't think it's quite sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. dr drugs may be anti-depressants maybe more than -- i think it depends what area you work in. it's hard to say that for all of wall street. the department i was in, i think more people i knew on ant anti-depressants, is my guess. there's probably a lot of -- you know, some of that post -- little sex there. >> little sex there, okay. nina, the book is "suits:women on wall street." what line of work are you in now? author? >> half-time author. i actually teach stress management through my company called mind works. >> g...

Sense. when we went into the break, we were talking with yaron brook about ayn rand and also vince flynn is here, author of "term limits." talking a little bit about fiction and how it can happen if you look at the correct data points. we were talking about what rand said and what your characters say and what happened in the "overton window," it's common sense. you said no, not exactly. >> yeah, it's ideas. it's common sense at the level but it's deeper than that. "atlas shrugged" is about fundamental foundational ideas. even the points you made earlier on the show, you said things are connect...