Brain Training: What Really Works? | Cognitive Bias: Anchoring.

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In today's GLP Update, we're talking about new research on brain training. And, we're kicking off a series on "cognitive bias," a/k/a the silly ways our minds fool us into thinking we're more rational than we really are.

Good Life Riff: In the first of our GLP Riffs on cognitive bias, we're exploring a quirky, hidden tendency known as "anchoring" or "focalism. What is that? It's how we subliminally anchor the value of things to a specific number, often a dollar amount. Why does this matter? Because it can lead us to believe something is worth way more or less than it really is, then pay a ton for something we end up regretting.

Good Life Science: And, in our Good Life Science segment, we're diving into some fascinating new research on brain training. You've seen the apps, website and programs. Train your brain for better memory, attention, focus, problem-solving. Or, just plain stop it from shrinking as you age. Is it true? Well, a new study out of Johns Hopkins looks at two popular approaches and comes up with some eye-opening conclusions. Hint: one works at least twice as well as the other. And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's John up in the fields with two days Good Life Project update.
0:07.6	Today we're going to be diving into two different things.
0:10.9	In our RIF, we'll be talking about kind of a unique cognitive bias that messes with the
0:16.3	way we see the world and make decisions.
0:19.6	And we're also going to explore a particular type of brain training, some research on one
0:24.8	specific type of brain training in our science update that actually pretty seriously outperforms
0:32.7	other forms of brain training.
0:34.2	We've seen a lot of brain training out there in the market these days.
0:37.6	And we're going to do a bit of myth-busting with today's science update.
0:42.1	Excited to dive in with you.
0:43.6	I'm John up in fields and this is Good Life Project.
0:51.2	So on today's Good Life Project RIF, I'm actually going to kick off
0:54.9	a series on something called Cognitive Bias.
0:58.3	So what is this thing?
0:59.5	Cognitive Bias is a tendency that we have.
1:04.6	It's basically it's baked into all human beings.
1:07.9	And it's something that very often leads us to make irrational decisions.
1:13.4	So we like to think of ourselves as intelligent, thinking, feeling, rational human beings.
1:20.7	You know, we think that if somebody presents us with a certain amount of information,
1:24.8	we can look at that information and we can figure out what is valid, what's not valid,
1:31.2	what makes sense, we can weigh it, we can do our pluses and minuses, our pros and cons.
1:37.0	And then based on this, you know, we can drop it into a spreadsheet if we want.
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