763: Recency Bias
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
We tend to emphasize the most recent data and use it as a baseline for how things will continue to happen in the future. Unfortunately, this recency bias leads us to make decisions based on the assumption that things will continue as they have, indefinitely.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:07.0 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:27.4 | We have added a ton of new listeners to the show in the past couple of months so I wanted |
| 0:32.8 | to first say welcome. |
| 0:35.1 | We have so many episodes so make sure that you scroll through whatever app you are listening |
| 0:40.8 | on or through PrimalPotential.com to find the episodes that speak to you whether that |
| 0:46.8 | is motivation, mindset, hormones, fat loss, money matters or anything in between or anything |
| 0:55.8 | outside of those pounds. |
| 0:57.6 | Chances are you will find it. |
| 1:01.1 | One thing that you will recognize really quickly about me is the value I place on becoming |
| 1:09.0 | a better thinker. |
| 1:11.4 | And I'll tell you why because that's really what we're going to be focusing on today. |
| 1:16.1 | Where I struggled for so long jumping from one diet to the next, one goal to the next |
| 1:24.6 | was that my strategy kept changing but my mindset wasn't and that is exactly why I kept |
| 1:32.7 | making excuses and putting things off and throwing in the towel and beginning again. |
| 1:39.1 | I thought it was a strategy issue like I just don't have the right plan. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm not doing the thing that is going to be the most effective and whether that was |
| 1:48.6 | I need a new way of eating or I need a new way of planning and tracking. |
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