Episode #339
Cognitive biases are default mental shortcuts; recognizing your own lets you interrupt them and make better decisions.
Seven common blockers—information bias, negativity bias, confirmation/attentional bias, gambler’s fallacy, Parkinson’s law of triviality, self-handicapping, and race/gender bias—can be countered by smallest-first-steps and short, low-cost experiments.
Use productive pauses (identify the bias, its origin, and a hedge), diversify your inputs/team, set micro-goals, and run after-action reviews to avoid drifting back to default.
Past events do not impact the future probabilities of you finding success.
Pull the damn trigger.
What am I not doing because I'm afraid?
Our actions are fueled by our unconscious defaults.
Why you choose one restaurant over another…
The way you interact with your boss…
How you talk about and handle adversity…
All of these happen because you act upon your “cognitive biases.”
Cognitive biases are your defaults and assumptions that make day-to-day decision-making simpler. But inasmuch as it’s useful, cognitive bias is flawed.
Your biases can hold you back because they don’t always result in good decisions. BUT becoming aware of these biases can help you override them— and that’s exactly what we’re going to do in this episode.
Listen in as I reveal 7 cognitive biases and how you can override them to have a better life, achieve more goals, and ultimately, find success through failure.
Tune in now and don’t forget to leave a rating and review if you find this episode helpful!
