Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to apply new knowledge in everyday life
Why continuous learning is important
How to find and evaluate sources of knowledge
Clustering Illusion
We tend to try to see patterns where none exist
- Patterns in clouds
- Faces in food
- Patterns in stokc markets
There are lot of stuff in which we may think there is a pattern but more often than not theu are just conicidental.
Humans are oversensitive to patterns
When you think you have a pattern, consider it luck and the analyse it or have it analysed through and expert. Try to disprove it.
74
580 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Survivorship Bias
This bias or error is about how one can systematically overestimate their chances of success. The probability of your start up being successful, of you becoming a royalty winning writer or becoming the next Led Zeppelin are next to zero, and yet, we ignore it. The reason we ignore it is ...
83
578 reads
Although this book may not hold the key to happiness, at the very least it acts as insurance against too much unhappiness.
ROLF DOBELLI
80
771 reads
Swimmer's body illusion
- Cosmetics products are sold by beautiful models and the products have no causal effect on their good looks
- Good universities are good because they take good students in and not the other way around
- And the main analogy from which the error ge...
83
586 reads
Introduction- Cognitive errors
It's very common that each and every one of us makes mistakes, what the author, Rolf Dobelli says, experts call as cognitive errors.
Some of these errors are:
- We overestimate our knowledge more often
- Fear of losing, drives us much more than gaining something of s...
105
991 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Related collections
Other curated ideas on this topic:
Paleo concept
Humans evolved on a diet very different from today's eating habits. To be healthier, leaner, stronger and fitter, we must re-think our diet and remove some of the food groups we consider basic.
Except
Paleo fans tend to overlook the...
Hanlon’s Razor Explained
- We tend to associate completely disconnected events in a unique way, fitting them into our ‘story’, the narratives we build to create our distorted version of reality.
- The patterns we think exist may not actually do so, but that does not stop us from assumi...
Beauty Patters
Throughout history, the definition of beauty and beauty ideals have changed a lot. But there are some patterns that remained: the golden ratio, symmetry, or fractal patterns can be found in art and architecture from our beginning until today.
Beauty patterns that resisted in time c...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates