We tend to make estimates that stay close to the first proposed value.

Reduce the negative impact of unhelpful self-stories by holding them lightly.

How to be more mentally present in your life and engage in activities that you find valuable.

Let your thoughts come and go while keeping your attention on what you’re doing.

Unhelpful thoughts can block us from living the life we want.

The narrative fallacy is our tendency to create incorrect cause-and-effect stories out of one or more events.

The planning fallacy is our tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future tasks, while overestimating their benefits.

The affect heuristic is our tendency to make judgements and decisions based on our current emotions.

The availability heuristic is our tendency to assume that things that come to mind easily are more common than they really are.

It often takes more than facts to change people’s minds

The focusing illusion is a cognitive bias that leads us to overestimate the importance of something because we focus our attention on it.

Survivorship bias is our tendency to focus on the successful outcomes (survivors, winners) of a particular situation, while overlooking the unsuccessful outcomes (failures, losers).

We tend to favour information that supports our pre-existing beliefs.

We give more attention and weight to negative stimuli than to positive ones.