10 Common Flaws With How We Think - 0 views
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By nature, human beings are illogical and irrational.
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survival meant thinking quickly, not methodically. Making a life-saving decision was more important than making a 100% accurate one, so the human brain developed an array of mental shortcuts.
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We can never totally escape them, but we can be more aware of them, and, just maybe, take efforts to minimize their influence.
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"Our decisions... are guided by the perceived values at the moment of the decision - not by the potential final value."
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The halo effect is a cognitive bias in which we judge a person's character based upon our rapid, and often oversimplified, impressions of him or her.