Thinking Skills | Journey of a Strategic Thinker | Week 1


Week 1

 Before you can do something right, you have to know the most common ways in which you can get it wrong. Our brain takes shortcuts when it's trying to make decisions faster.

These shortcuts are both conscious & subconscious. This week had me traverse through the plethora of biases that human mind have. I sorted them in the descending order of the most common and most important. The different type of biases covered this week are mentioned below:

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Cognitive Dissonance

Spotlight Effect

Anchoring Effect

Halo Effect

Gamblers Fallacy

Contrast Effect
 

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