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Psychology of Mistakes: 7 Lazy Thinking Habits You Don't Notice You Have

Psychology of Mistakes: 7 Lazy Thinking Habits You Don't Notice You Have15 sept.32 min

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Human beings, it turns out, are magnificently good at fooling themselves.

Sadly the mind has developed an elaborate way of hiding our worst thinking mistakes from us. Our shortcut-taking so instinctive we rarely notice it happening.

This episode explores seven of these habits and on the way answers a lot of questions. Why do we blame the referee and ignore our own missed shots? Why does a friend's anecdote beat a mountain of statistics? Why do the people who commit history's worst atrocities rarely think of themselves as villains?

I find it oddly comforting discovering that everyone, including myself, is quietly wired / weird this way. Hopefully you do to and can learn to start working around it.

Catch yourself assigning blame to one convenient cause

Ask what a friend's story leaves out that the statistics reveal

Notice when certainty feels good but the evidence is thin

Listen in, and you may never trust your first instinct quite the same way again.