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How to beat procrastination
How to enhance your creative thinking
How to create a smooth transition in a new endeavor
Abandon the illusion of control
The illusion of control can be adaptive, in the sense that it encourages a focus on problem-solving behaviors as opposed to an emotional response.
Producing your best-informed guesswork prevents the anticipation in stress testing. However, there will always be some things you cannot completely control.
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Stress tests
Stress tests cannot be improved. History is a much better predictor than a stress test. But even history requires a model to interpret it.
We always have a preconception of cause and effect, and therefore some prejudice for how to interpret the data. That does not mean that we shoul...
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Drawing up your own tests
Your own incentives may support an illusion of control. If you draw up your own worst-case scenarios, you will always pass, but as a result, you will develop blind spots.
Encourage innovation in risk models to increase diversification and decrease risk.
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Success and crisis
Success in “normal” circumstances does not mean that you will succeed in a crisis since, in a crisis, the rules change. However, it can make you feel confident and make you highly vulnerable to the next crisis.
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The illusion of control
Stress testing is a standard technique used to test how someone will perform in the "worst-case" scenario. The problem is that the "worst-case" scenario is subjective, causing an illusion of control.
- It can make a person overconfident in themselves, believing that they have compl...
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Stress testing is a standard technique used to test how someone will perform in the "worst-case" scenario. The problem is that the "worst-case" scenario is subjective, causing an illusion of control.
- It can make a person overconfident in themselves, believing that they have compl...
The Illusion Of Control
Many people, who are otherwise perfectly healthy can create patterns and have an illusion that they are somehow in control of the external events that no one could influence.
The belief is so strong that it can affect their behaviour and make them do superstitious actions that make no sen...
The Six Dimensions of Wellness Model
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- Occupational: your entire career path, your fulfillment with work, your future goals and ambitions, and your responsibility for performance and growth.
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