A Comprehensive Guide to Cognitive Biases
This title comes from a fantastic Quartz article I read today, which you should go read as it's the entire point of this post on Steemit:
You are almost definitely not living in reality because your brain doesn’t want you to.
It's a fantastic 12 minute read covering all of our cognitive biases and grouping them into four main categories:
- Information overload sucks, so we aggressively filter.
- Lack of meaning is confusing, so we fill in the gaps.
- We need to act fast lest we lose our chance, so we jump to conclusions.
- This isn’t getting easier, so we try to remember the important bits.
I'm sharing it here because I had a brief chat with @smooth in steemit.chat tonight about how I'm still figuring out what Steemit should be as a social media medium. Can we share links we value? Do people care? I don't know.
This article about our biases is so valuable, I want it referenced in my blog on the blockchain so I can refer to it regularly. Seriously, go give it a read. It's worth bookmarking and referencing over and over. Funny thing is, even the Quartz article is a reposting of Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet because thinking is hard by Buster Benson.
This image, which I basically stole via a screenshot, is just a tease for a fantastic poster built around the original article:
You should go buy the full poster. I'm only showing a portion of it, so I'm not sure of the fair use involved, but John Manoogian III is the author.
I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did and will reference it often to help improve your own understanding of reality.
the concept of cognitive biases first really caught my attention when Tai Lopez mentioned it multiple times, really emphasizing how critical they are...
dove into it a bit, and this is some real-deal, no-B.S. fundamental insight psychological dynamics.
the slower one approaches contemplating these and really self-analyzing to see how/when/where these biases operate in our own lives... POWERFUL practices in self-transformation.
can go very deep into all of these and the ways they play out. doing so definitely takes some serious time and brain processing power, but learning this stuff would be like learning the coding programs of the matrix, in regards to human psychology. could spend a LONG time diving in, but would be a very worthwhile investment...
There are a lot of things relating to "brain stuff" I'm coming to really value. The first is Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies. Non-violent communication (NVC) is also another big one, along with knowing our cognitive biases. The real challenge is learning all this stuff well enough to use it daily.
hmmm... this might be timely. i may have slipped up with this stuff yesterday. ok, I most likely did. busted. :-)
We're all the asshole neighbor now and again. The key, I think, is recognizing it and improving ourselves for the future. :)
Non-Violent communication? Please elaborate on this for me please.
It was one of my very first posts here on Steemit: https://steemit.com/peace/@lukestokes/nvc-violence-is-a-tragic-expression-of-an-unmet-need
Showing a portion that is barely readable and giving a link to go buy it is fair use in the moral sense. Only a court can decide legally. I like your post, upvoted.
Thanks, @smooth. Seeing how the original article was also a reshare from betterhumans.coach.me, and I wouldn't have seen it unless a friend of mine saw it on Quartz and shared it on Facebook, it got me thinking about the people who will now see it because of this reshare here on Steemit and your upvotes. I guess that's the "social" part of "social media." Maybe there is room to reward a bit of that here too.
Lol I like the cut of your jib sir.
Hahah, nice. I had to look that one up on Urban Dictionary.
Brilliant article and excellent summarization. Clear seeing, my own and supporting others', is a life passion of mine! thanks for this resource.
Thanks Cindy!
Awesome. I have the skeleton of a cognitive bias post, this should be very helpful!
Excellent! Looking forward to reading it.
That post is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
I've been writing a series about cognitive biases with the title "The lies we tell ourselves". I've written about eight of them already, with another one coming out tomorrow.
Very cool! I don't think we can talk about this stuff enough. Following for sure.