Cognitive biases are built in us by evolution. These are impossible to let go of. However, you can minimize the impact on your thinking by understanding them.
Suppose your plane crashed in the middle of nowhere with you and a dozen other survivors. You have three options: Everyone leaves the crash site to look for food and help. Half of the group leaves the crash site to look for food and help, while the other half stays put. Everyone stays at the …
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Sometimes people think something is a design flaw, but it’s really a design feature. Let’s pretend that you are new to Gmail. As a new user, you find yourself complaining about the five-second delay in sending email messages and you call it a bug–a flaw in the software. However, after using Gmail for a few …
People always said I was a calm guy. I never got angry or raised my voice. But it all changed when my daughter turned 3. Like many 3-year-olds, she was testing her limits. She would flat out ignore me when I told her to do something, or she would look me in the eye and …
I had a near-death experience. I was on a train to meet some friends outside Paris. People were getting on and off at various stops, and eventually, there were only two of us. The other guy was wearing a sleeveless jean jacket with worn-out biker boots. His knuckles were tattooed, and he had a scar …
We all crave sugar. Humans need sugar to live, so evolution gave us the craving for it. Sugar was relatively scarce in the environment in which humans evolved, so our metabolism adapted to convert excess calories from sugar quickly and efficiently into fat. Fast forward 100,000 years: sugar is now abundant in our environment. But …
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