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Here is a list of 15 things, which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier, and much more happier. We are holding on to so many things that are causing us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering, and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy, we cling on to them, but not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change.
15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy
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O ur minds set up many traps for us. Unless we’re aware of them, these traps can seriously hinder our ability to think rationally, leading us to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions. Features of our minds that are meant to help us may, eventually, get us into trouble. “Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? What’s your best estimate?”
Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed
The Recency illusion is the belief or impression that something is of recent origin when it is in fact long-established.
Recency illusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life
Stop berating yourself for being a work in progress. – Start embracing it!Fallacy of composition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole (or even of every proper part ). For example: "This fragment of metal cannot be broken with a hammer, therefore the machine of which it is a part cannot be broken with a hammer." This is clearly fallacious, because many machines can be broken into their constituent parts without any of those parts being breakable.
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Rares sont les occasions de synthétiser une pensée, de brasser différents points précis pour finalement construire une vision cohérente d’un sujet. Le Nouvel économiste , sous la plume de Caroline Castets, a bien voulu, en novembre dernier, me donner cette occasion. Les propos qui suivent retranscrivent une discussion à bâton rompu, et la journaliste a choisi de leur conserver leur part d'oralité pour en rappeler le contexte.
Your Evolved Intuitions
Part of the sequence: Rationality and Philosophy We have already examined one source of our intuitions: attribute substitution heuristics .
You know there’s a new nonfiction genre by the titles alone — Blink, Nudge, Predictably Irrational … and now Sway . This book is probably best compared with Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational , but to me the Brafman brothers’ book seemed easier to digest — partially because it’s shorter, but also because it doesn’t seem to discuss as many experiments in as excruciating detail as Ariely tended to do.
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior | Psych Central
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In my last post for this blog I discussed the fact that individual scientific studies are insufficient to establish a claim or phenomenon, and yet people often cite a single study as if it offers proof of their position. In order to really understand the status of a scientific claim, rather, you need to have some sense of the totality of relevant scientific research - the so-called scientific "literature." In this post, as promised, I will cover some basics as to how to interpret the published literature. This topic, however, requires some background discussion on the nature of expertise. Many scientific areas are highly specialized and require specific technical knowledge.Cognitive Biases
List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cognitive bias describes a replicable pattern in perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are the result of distortions in the human mind that always lead to the same pattern of poor judgment, often triggered by a particular situation. Identifying "poor judgment," or more precisely, a "deviation in judgment," requires a standard for comparison, i.e. "good judgment". In scientific investigations of cognitive bias, the source of "good judgment" is that of people outside the situation hypothesized to cause the poor judgment, or, if possible, a set of independently verifiable facts.by Nikki The human mind is a wonderful thing. Cognition, the act or process of thinking, enables us to process vast amounts of information quickly. For example, every time your eyes are open, you brain is constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You may be consciously thinking about one specific thing, but you brain is processing thousands of subconscious ideas. Unfortunately, our cognition is not perfect, and there are certain judgment errors that we are prone to making, known in the field of psychology as cognitive biases.
Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought - Listverse
The Forer effect (also called the Barnum Effect after P.T.
Forer effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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