[Preview] The Unmistakable Creativity Hour | How Cognitive Biases Impact Our Thinking and Actions
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In the episode, we discuss cognitive biases and how they can impact our lives. Cognitive biases are cognitive distortions that can lead to inaccurate judgments and decision-making. These cognitive distortions can cause us to make poor decisions, which can have a negative impact on our lives.
Some of the most common cognitive biases include the sunk cost fallacy, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and self-serving bias. There are many ways to overcome cognitive biases and make better decisions. One way is to become aware of the cognitive biases that affect you the most. Once you're aware of them, you can begin taking steps to counteract their effects.
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| 0:00.0 | out there somewhere in the world is the guy who cheated off of me in math class in high school. |
| 0:05.9 | He was a sea student and I guarantee you he holds his opinions as strongly as I hold mine. |
| 0:12.7 | Now does that mean that he's a bad person? That he doesn't, you know, he hasn't thought |
| 0:16.0 | through all these things. He he very well may have very strong opinions, but I remember this guy |
| 0:21.6 | as the guy who looked over my shoulder and almost got us both in trouble because he couldn't do |
| 0:25.3 | his homework in math. So this is all a long we did way of saying each of us in some points in |
| 0:31.8 | our life have been wrong. We've been the the douche who was, you know, cheating off of somebody else |
| 0:37.7 | either figuratively or literally, right? So, you know, if we can accept the fact that we are all |
| 0:43.5 | human and all fallible, it's a lot easier for us to overcome the confirmation bias and expect |
| 0:50.4 | that we're going to be wrong. I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where |
| 0:59.7 | you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who |
| 1:04.0 | started movements, built driving businesses, written best selling books and created an |
| 1:08.4 | insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com. |
| 1:14.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the unmistakable creativity hour. |
| 1:22.7 | Jonathan, I decided to do some back-to-back episodes because he's traveling and so on. Why? |
| 1:27.0 | And in this episode, we are going to discuss a subject that believe it or not is kind of vague and |
| 1:33.3 | hard to understand, but incredibly important. And that is the subject of cognitive biases. |
| 1:39.4 | What's going on, Deris? Oh, man, I'm glad you said this subject was vague. |
| 1:43.8 | Because I have no idea what the heck we're talking about. Let's get to it. |
| 1:47.5 | Yeah, all right. So the thing about cognitive biases that makes them so complicated is that we all |
| 1:53.7 | have them and they kind of influence our behavior almost sort of at an invisible level. |
| 2:00.9 | They shape the way that we think, they shape the way that we act, they influence our decisions, |
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