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Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 123 with Adam Hansen.

We were chatting cognitive biases with Adam in the context of innovation and getting creative and

he had a lot of really cool insights to share,

including one, when you can still trust the wisdom of your instincts, two, the massive power

of taking six extra seconds to breathe and think.

And three, how to apply the Foreness mindset

to overcome negativity bias.

So if you'd like to check out the show notes

or the transcript with links to items items mentioned you can find that over

at awesome at your job.com slash eep one two three that's awesome at your job

dot com slash eep one hundred twenty three while you're there recommend you check out some of the cool stuff from our 10 days to

winning at work email course, which shares tips and tools and tactics to slash the

waste out of your work week, as well as the Gold Nugget email list, which offers summary insight wisdom

from the guests that come through in an email you can read in under two minutes each morning

that we have a new guest. So here's Adam's story. Adam Hanson is

vice president of innovation and an innovation process consultant at

ideas to go and a career-long innovation leader, student and devotee.

He received his MBA in product management

at Indiana University,

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