Mini: Understanding Confirmation Bias / Spartan MIND 051

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We make thousands of choices in just one day. What we wear, choose to eat, and decide to do are just a tiny few. Micro-decisions are made constantly and it’s important to understand one of the phenomena that informs our choices. Something called confirmation bias is often behind many of our decisions and also behind the way that we develop a view of ourself. Confirmation bias occurs when we pay attention to and focus on information that confirms a pre-existing belief, value, or assumption. For example, let’s say you don’t think you’re very smart. Because of confirmation bias, you will naturally, though sometimes without awareness, look for information that confirms this belief. So you may pay attention to that one critique that you got on a project review instead of the fifty positive statements that came your way. It’s important to understand confirmation bias and bring into awareness how this may be impacting your beliefs and subsequent choices.

LESSONS:
Understanding why certain beliefs are held and decisions are made is an important step in getting to know yourself better.
Confirmation bias occurs when you pay attention to information that confirms pre-existing beliefs or assumptions.
Pay attention to what information you focus on and what beliefs you may be looking to confirm or validate.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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0:00.0	What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, your Chief Mind Doc.
0:09.6	Today we're talking about understanding confirmation bias.
0:14.4	All right, so what is confirmation bias?
0:16.8	Well, it's one of these psychological phenomenons
0:19.3	that usually most of us have a tendency to fall into. And what happens is it's when you scan the world,
0:27.0	scan your environment, scan the external for information that confirms something you believe, right?
0:35.0	So kids are a great example of this at Christmas.
0:38.0	If they believe in Santa Claus, they're going to scan the environment,
0:42.0	scan the outside, scan what's around
0:45.4	them to confirm this belief, okay?
0:48.5	So anything that feels like and makes them believe more in Santa, they're going to latch on to it.
0:54.1	Anything that disproves Santa, they're going to try and let that go.
0:58.0	Well, one of the reasons why we're talking about confirmation bias today is not because of
1:02.3	Santa Claus. It's because of your
1:04.0	belief about yourself. Because if we have negative beliefs about ourselves or
1:10.8	negative judgments or stories that we tell ourselves, we're going to
1:14.8	scan the external world for information that confirms those beliefs and that gets
1:21.8	us into trouble because there could be tons of information
1:26.2	out there that disproves our belief but if we are hell-bent on sticking to this
1:31.9	belief then we're going to get all of the information
1:34.3	that we can that proves the belief to be true and suck that in.
1:38.3	So let me give you an example of that.
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