When explaining the behaviour of others, we tend to overestimate the role of personality traits and underestimate the role of environmental influences.

We tend to prefer immediate rewards at the expense of future rewards.

Accept your painful thoughts and feelings, be in the present moment and take values-based action.

Because of our cognitive biases we tend to make systematic errors in our thinking.

Our judgements, decisions and moral feelings are not based on reality, but on how reality is framed.

We tend to be more driven to avoid losses than to achieve gains.

Optimism bias can cause us to make decisions based on unrealistically optimistic expectations.

It is difficult for our minds to reconstruct our previous beliefs.

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.

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.