Avoiding Biases

... specifically cognitive biases, are your unchecked tendencies to make decisions or take actions in an irrational way. 

Instead of making decisions based on facts and data, you are more prone to base your decisions on unconscious errors that lead to a distorted judgment of the worl...

• People who are aware of their own biases are not better able to overcome them. Our intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy.
• According to scientists, intelligent people have a larger bias blind spot. They ...

Biases are your ready-made encyclopedia of all the answers you need to prove yourself right, which can be a disaster in any argument.

Hold off your biases and try to find growth and new perspectives that come out of a productive disagreement. Take the conversation as a learning opportun...