Cognitive Dissonance
Discover how cognitive dissonance shapes your decisions, from toxic jobs to broken relationships. Learn to transform mental tension into powerful personal change.
Confirmation Bias
Out of all of the cognitive biases, Confirmation Bias might be the most damaging in my opinion because it keeps you locked in one lane. Before we get into it what is Confirmation Bias? The tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs. A person who believes … Read more
Destroy Your Ideas
Let’s start with a quote by Charles Munger. We are all learning, modifying, and destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. If you want to find … Read more
The Reality Gap
Your ego’s lying to you right now. Mine did too, back when I sat in my advisor’s office trying to explain how a 4.0 student could get an F in Probability. “I didn’t need to go to class,” I told her, believing every word. “I could just read the textbook.“ Narrator: That worked out exactly … Read more