Art Markman, Ph.D.: The Smartest Way to Overcome an Obstacle Few important things in life come easy. Starting in school, there are days where assignments just don't go well. That concept you thought you had nailed in class has flown from your mind by the time you sit down to do your work. As you get older, the obstacles get more varied. You might want to buy a great new car, but you don't have the money. Dealing with obstacles is a crucial part of being successful in life. Sometimes, of course, we just push through the obstacles. When you're faced with a new obstacle, though, this kind of automatic reminding won't work. To get the intuition behind this, consider a simple experiment from this paper. Of course, this result isn't that surprising. Experiencing an obstacle also affected conceptual processing. This conceptual study also allowed the authors to demonstrate an important quality of this increase in thinking globally following an obstacle. What does this mean for you? Your motivation system wants to help you achieve your goals.
How to Get Out of a Slump Edit Article Edited by SantaPaws, Teresa, Spyagent, Nicole Willson and 9 others It can happen to any one of us on occasion––doing well in life can suddenly seem to come to a screeching halt, to be replaced by doubts, frustration and a sense of the blues even. When you're in a slump, be it your career, your sports game, your studies or your personal life, it's not pleasant. In fact, it can be confusing and hard to feel motivated to do anything more than feel stuck. However, your general feeling of malaise and dissatisfaction is telling you something pointed––it's time to reroute your direction and start finding a new pathway to a brighter future for yourself. Most of a journey to pick yourself up and out of a slump is going to be a very personal and internally guided one (provided that you trust your own voice). Ad Steps 1Relax. 12Reward yourself when you reach milestones in your goal. Tips Stay focused on the end result when you feel as if the slump is lasting for ages. Warnings
List of cognitive biases Systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.[1] Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research,[2][3] there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them.[4] Several theoretical causes are known for some cognitive biases, which provides a classification of biases by their common generative mechanism (such as noisy information-processing[5]). Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. There are also controversies over some of these biases as to whether they count as useless or irrational, or whether they result in useful attitudes or behavior. Belief, decision-making and behavioral[edit] Anchoring bias[edit] Apophenia[edit]
Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought Humans 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. The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not. Reactivity is the tendency of people to act or appear differently when they know that they are being observed. Pareidolia is when random images or sounds are perceived as significant. Interesting Fact: the Rorschach Inkblot test was developed to use pareidolia to tap into people’s mental states. Self-fulfilling Prophecy Self-fulfilling prophecy is engaging in behaviors that obtain results that confirm existing attitudes. Interesting Fact: Economic Recessions are self-fulfilling prophecies. Herd mentality is the tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.
Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed Our 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. Here are the first 5 of the most harmful of these traps and how to avoid each one of them. 1. “Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? Lesson: Your starting point can heavily bias your thinking: initial impressions, ideas, estimates or data “anchor” subsequent thoughts. This trap is particularly dangerous as it’s deliberately used in many occasions, such as by experienced salesmen, who will show you a higher-priced item first, “anchoring” that price in your mind, for example. What can you do about it? Always view a problem from different perspectives. 2. In one experiment a group of people were randomly given one of two gifts — half received a decorated mug, the other half a large Swiss chocolate bar. 3. 4.
6 Steps to Eliminate Limiting Beliefs Photo by Stock Photo ** New: Audio: (Intro: listen above or download mp3 file) I consider myself a frugal person and I’ve always thought that it was a good thing. It all started with the story of a little dell laptop, and the story went something like this… The computer I use every day is a five-year-old Dell laptop. This little machine has served me well, but due to its nature (ahem – it runs on Windows) – its gradual decline in reliability and performance was noticeable (even after re-installing Windows and doubling the RAM). Last week, Jeremy watched as I was hunched over my little laptop, frustrated once again by the slowness of its functions, hinting of the need to reboot. I have resisted converting to Apple for about ten years. So, Jeremy and his friend Dave took me to the Apple Store. Then we spotted it, the 30″ Cinema HD Display, which has a non-reflective matte screen and the higher price tag to go with it. I observed as the feeling glistened over me. Afterwards Wow! 1. 2. 3. 4.