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The framing effect: how language shapes your perception of reality
Our judgements, decisions and moral feelings are not based on reality, but on how reality is framed.
Loss aversion: taming the fear of loss for smarter decisions
We tend to be more driven to avoid losses than to achieve gains.
Optimism bias: navigating the pitfalls of unrealistic optimism
Optimism bias can cause us to make decisions based on unrealistically optimistic expectations.
Hindsight bias: Why we think we knew it all along
It is difficult for our minds to reconstruct our previous beliefs.
The anchoring effect: The power of initial values
We tend to make estimates that stay close to the first proposed value.
Test your chosen path
Test your chosen ideas to assess if they can take you from where you are now to where you want to go.
Finding your life purpose: How to discover what you want to do in life
If you're unsure about what to do in life, try to discover your life purpose.
How to figure out your personal values
Your personal values indicate how you want to behave and what kind of person you want to be.
Narrative fallacy: Why many of your explanatory stories are incorrect
The narrative fallacy is our tendency to create incorrect cause-and-effect stories out of one or more events.
Why projects always take longer than you think
The planning fallacy is our tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future tasks, while overestimating their benefits.
Why environmental organisations show cute animals
The affect heuristic is our tendency to make judgements and decisions based on our current emotions.
Availability heuristic: Why violent crimes are less common than you think
The availability heuristic is our tendency to assume that things that come to mind easily are more common than they really are.
Why moving to a Mediterranean climate won’t make you happier
The focusing illusion is a cognitive bias that leads us to overestimate the importance of something because we focus our attention on it.
Why strategies used by successful people don’t work for you
Survivorship bias is our tendency to focus on the successful outcomes (survivors, winners) of a particular situation, while overlooking the unsuccessful outcomes (failures, losers).
Confirmation bias: Belief trumps evidence
We tend to favour information that supports our pre-existing beliefs.
Negativity bias: Why you are addicted to bad news
We give more attention and weight to negative stimuli than to positive ones.