The Dirty Truth About Polls The News Doesn’t Want to Admit

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

To see the world, you must look through something - eyes, windows, glasses, screens. And while what we see seems real, we never stop to think that someone else could be looking at the same thing but seeing it very differently. In this episode, Andrew and Jihi discuss the way your brain interprets information differently than those around you. And how you can change the lens your using to view the world...

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom.
0:23.1	Freedom.
0:27.1	I'm super excited to have you back again, GE, for us to talk about our next installment
0:33.3	of Team Spy.
0:34.8	I feel like our last conversation was just yesterday, and I'm still amped about it
0:38.7	after watching recent events, but we've got to focus on something new. We're focusing on today.
0:43.6	What are we talking about today? Today, we wanted to talk about cognitive distortions.
0:49.2	Cognitive distortions. I feel like we've been throwing the word cognitive out a lot.
0:52.5	We talked about logical fallacies being a cognitive block.
0:56.4	So I hope that when we talk about cognitive distortions, we don't start to confuse people.
1:01.0	What is a cognitive distortion?
1:03.6	A cognitive distortion is a way that our mind convinces us of something that isn't true.
1:09.8	There are inaccurate thoughts that usually reinforce negative thinking or emotions.
1:14.2	You sound a little bit like an encyclopedia.
1:16.4	I'm not going to lie.
1:18.7	So how is that different from a bias?
1:21.6	So a bias has to do with the way that you filter information that's coming in.
1:28.3	A distortion is internal.
1:30.3	So a distortion is a kind of filter that you see life through, basically.
1:36.3	So like a bias is something that's wired into us.
1:40.3	It's almost like an error in code if we were a computer.
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