As we mingled afterwards there were a few embarrassed faces. We all had, at some point during the evening, lost count of the steps, bumped into each other or gone in the wrong direction. One person even mentioned having to stop completely for a few minutes to catch his bearings – one of the perils …
How To Evade The Clutches Of This Ego-centric Bias. No, It’s Not all About You. Read More »
I read somewhere that we can have up to 60,000 thoughts a day and that about 98% of them are the same thoughts we had yesterday. The more alarming statistic, however, was that about 80% of those thoughts are negative. I knew that we tend to focus on the negative but had no idea that …
Why Do You Love Bad News So Much? How To Resist The Effect Of This Powerful Mental Bias. Read More »
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking You make thousands of decisions a day and you’d probably say that they were pretty well thought out and rational. But what if I told you that while you were making those decisions there were any number of mental …
Are You Really As Good As You Think You Are? Avoiding The Delusion Of This Mental Bias. Read More »
Should you stay or should you go? It’s sometimes a fine line between knowing when to get stuck in and when it’s time to move on. You know that success doesn’t come easy. It takes commitment, hard work, persistence and perseverance. You don’t just give up when the going gets tough, you have to knuckle …
6 Telltale Signs That It May Be Time To Let Go And Move On. Read More »
‘Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.’ Ludwig Wittgenstein There’s a restaurant in town that I love going to and whenever I do I order the ribs. Now there are any number of other seemingly delectable items on the menu, sometimes I’ve even been tempted to try something new, but invariably I end up …
The Totally Irrational Reason You Won’t Make That Change In Your Life. Read More »
Have you ever wondered why you buy things that you don’t really need or why you are likely to be more honest after recalling the ten commandments? These are just a few of the questions researcher and author Dan Ariely answers in his book ‘Predictably Irrational’. In the book, he debunks the myth that we …
Book Review: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. Read More »
We make thousands of decisions a day and probably think that these are pretty rational but what if that wasn’t always the case? What if the reality was that our brains took shortcuts in order to help us make sense of the inordinate amount of data it has to deal with and to allow us …
Book Review: Thinking Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Read More »