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Yesterday, 3M people found my weird obsession with cognitive biases.
A "cognitive bias" is a systematic error in thinking that destroys decision-making.
7 more of the most powerful (and dangerous) cognitive biases I've found: 🧵
1. Confirmation Bias:
1. Confirmation Bias:
We search for information that supports our beliefs and reject anything that contradicts them.
If you hate a specific politician, you only read news that makes them look bad.
You don't want the truth; you want to be right.
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2. The Paradox of Choice:
Having too many options leads to anxiety and analysis paralysis, not freedom.
A menu with 50 pages makes it impossible to order dinner. A Netflix queue with 1,000 movies makes you watch nothing.
Constraints create freedom.
3. The Pygmalion Effect:
Higher expectations lead to an increase in performance.
If a leader believes a team member is a "top performer," that person subconsciously improves to meet that belief.
Treat people like they are capable, and they will become capable.
4. The Ikea Effect:
We overvalue things simply because we helped create them.
That wobbly table you built yourself feels more valuable to you than a perfect one from a factory.
Effort creates attachment, not necessarily quality.
5. Outcome Bias:
We judge a decision based on its result rather than the quality of the decision at the time.
You drive home drunk and arrive safely, so you assume it was a "good" decision. It wasn't.
Don't mistake luck for skill.
6. Hindsight Bias:
The tendency to see events as predictable after they have already happened.
"I knew the market would crash today!" (No, you didn't, or you would be a billionaire).
Everything looks obvious in the rearview mirror.
7. Status Quo Bias:
We prefer things to stay the same by doing nothing or sticking with a previous decision.
You stay in a subscription, a job, or a relationship simply because the effort of changing it feels too "risky."
The comfort zone is where dreams go to die.
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