mind traps
“In driver’s training we were taught to identify our visual blind spots and eliminate them with the help of mirrors and sensors. In life (...) we need to learn to recognize our cognitive blind spots and revise our thinking accordingly”
from Think Again by Adam Grant
novelty bias
The fundamental problem with an information cascade is that after a certain point it becomes rational for people to stop paying attention to their own knowledge—their private information—and to start looking instead at the actions of others and imitate them. (If everyone has the same likelihood of making the right choice, and everyone before you ha
... See moreWe fall victim to the fat-cat syndrome,32 resting on our laurels instead of pressure-testing our beliefs.
fat-cat syndrome
a machine that tries to circumvent thinking