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How to create a positive work environment
Conflict resolution strategies
Effective communication in the workplace
Clustering Illusion
When you start seeing a pattern in something, always consider the possibility that the occurence is simply by chance.
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Survivorship Bias
We tend to overestimate the chances of success because success stories are more likely to be reported, while failure stories do not.
"Behind every popular author you can find a hundred other writers whose books never sell."
How to elude the survivorship bias?
- Do the digg...
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Social Proof
We are genetically programmed with herd instinct -- to follow the crowd. However, it does not always mean that when the crowd does something, that action of choice is correct.
"If fifty million people sat something foolish, it is still foolish" - W. Somerset Maugham
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Swimmer's Body Illusion
Swimmer's body illusion is whenever we confuse selection factors with results.
Some people are born with selection factors that makes them eligible for the success that they have now achieved. For example a swimmer might not have a perfect body because he swims, but because he was genetica...
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Mapping Efficiency Frontiers
Taking efficiency further, one can consider lots of designs. By putting them all on a graph, we can notice that the ones inside of the frontier are inefficient choices.
Efficient frontiers will show a general pattern.
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Randomness and Determined Choice
Randomness is when things have no pattern in them. Our free-willed choices cannot be random as the process of randomness can produce any pattern whatsoever, by mere chance.
As determined or predetermined choices are by default not in free will, it is concluded that free will can neither be...
Making motivation a habit
- Make the start easy: You shouldn’t need motivation to start your pre–game routine;
- While your routine should be as easy as possible to start, it should gradually transition into more and more physical movement;
- You need to follow the same pattern every single time: Eventually...
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