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The "swimmer's body illusion"
It's a thinking mistake and it occurs when we confuse selection factors with results.
Professional swimmers don't have perfect bodies because they train extensively. Rather, they are good swimmers because of their physiques.
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The anchoring effect
It essentially works like this: rather than making a decision based on pure value for investment (time, money, etc.), we factor in comparative value—that is, how much value an option offers when compared to another option.
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Memories vs. facts
We believe our memories more than facts. Our memories are highly fallible and plastic. And yet, we tend to subconsciously favor them over objective facts.
Don't base a factual decision on your gut instinct without at least exploring the data objectively first.
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The sunk cost fallacy
It plays on this tendency of ours to emphasize loss over gain.
The term sunk cost refers to any cost that has been paid already and cannot be recovered. The reason we can't ignore the cost, even though it's already been paid, is that we're wired to feel loss far more strongly than g...
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The gambler's fallacy
It is a glitch in our thinking that occurs when we place too much weight on past events, believing that they will have an effect on future outcomes.
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The positive expectation bias
This is when we mistakenly think that eventually, our luck has to change for the better.
Somehow, we find it impossible to accept bad results and give up—we often insist on keeping at it until we get positive results, regardless of what the odds of that happening actually are.
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Information that matches our beliefs
We surround ourselves with it: We tend to like people who think like us; if we agree with someone's beliefs, we're more likely to be friends with them.
This makes sense, but it means that we subconsciously begin to ignore or dismiss anything that threatens our world views
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The Buyer's Stockholm Syndrome
It happens when we rationalize our purchases, even if we're not satisfied with what we've got.
We're pretty good at convincing ourselves that those flashy, useless, badly thought-out purchases are necessary after all.
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Defensive failure
It's what occurs when we want to achieve something and we think about it constantly but we don't do it.
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