HOW WE MAKE OUR DECISIONS: DANIEL KAHNEMAN'S COGNITIVE BIAS

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Also today a coaching article on  DANIEL KAHNEMAN'S COGNITIVE BIAS. This article also has the function of helping if accompanied by sincere introspection, because as I always repeat: no one can lie to themselves and it is useless to make fun of yourself. These articles stimulate self-understanding, acceptance, change where you can and above all love yourself. Asin every Life Coaching context we are examining, there are only small explanations and many questions. Finding these answers is our task, discovering ourselves to then improve ourselves and loving ourselves for who we are is the ultimate goal. As has already been said in several articles: 

“A question at the right time can change your life or at least the vision you have of it.”

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DANIEL KAHNEMAN'S COGNITIVE BIAS

Cognitive biases are unconscious mental biases that can affect our ability to make logical, rational decisions. Our tendency to fall into these thinking errors can be influenced by various factors, including experience, education, culture and personal beliefs. 

Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and economist whose best-known research is in the fields of the psychology of judgment, decision making, and behavioral economics. 

Kahneman argued that cognitive biases are like an optical illusion: people think as they see.

FACT AND INFORMATION BIAS (QUALIFICATIONS/COMPETENCE)

Knowledge may equal power, but more knowledge is not always the best outcome one can achieve. 

Information bias occurs when people become trapped in the need to seek and validate information that does not lead to effective or affirmative action. 

There is a big difference between being an innovator and an imitator: there are people who collect ideas just to talk about them, while there are others who collect ideas and then apply them in meaningful actions.

THE PLACEBO EFFECT (THE SECRET AND MANIFESTATIONS)

This bias is what inadvertently causes the effects we predicted, a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

As we know, the placebo effect comes from scientific experiments in which patients were given a fake drug that they claimed would cure them, and it was found that the positive mindset of believing that they were receiving an effective drug alleviated the symptoms of many patients. The problem is that this can happen both ways, depending on the negativity or positivity of our mentality: when we are biased towards our inefficiency, we will fail because we do not try to prove ourselves wrong. 

We cannot expect good things to happen to us in life just because we think good things, and equally, we should not expect bad things to happen to us just because we think so.

RESULT BIAS (JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER)

This is when people judge the soundness of a decision based on its outcome rather than the process of how they arrived at the decision.

 An example of this would be someone who gets away with driving while intoxicated and believing that the decision to drive while intoxicated was a sensible one because no one was hurt and they got home safely. The same goes for our relationships with others: 

We judge people for what they do and how they behave without considering what they may have gone through that led them to be the way they are (and, therefore, have the ability to change).

 

PRO-INNOVATION BIAS (LARGENESS CONSTRAINED BY DEPENDENCE)

Being innovative is great, but innovation can only take people so far. 

The problem that occurs with innovation bias is when proponents of an innovation overestimate its usefulness and underestimate its limitations.  This shows up in our relationships when being part of an initiative becomes more important than the initiative itself.

People join movements, community groups, or even political parties, but remain bogged down and distracted by their status within the group rather than focusing on what the group is doing, supposed to accomplish, and why it was established in the first place. place.

STEREOTYPES AND GENERALIZATIONS (ALL INTENTIONS ARE GOOD)

Stereotyping occurs when a person expects a person (or group of people) to have certain qualities, thoughts, and behaviors without knowing anything about them personally.

Although stereotypes likely have a psychological benefit when used to categorize  strangers as safe or dangerous (for example, a child can be taught to categorize a man they don't know as someone they shouldn't trust without their parents), divisions cultural and sociological, the political climate has blurred this line thanks to distorted media representations and the socio-cultural conditioning of who "looks good" and who "looks bad". 

As adults, we cannot afford to accept socially indoctrinated or experimented concepts of what people are and who they will be based on a category they might fit into on a superficial level.

Knowledge of cognitive biases can facilitate  reflection on our internal dialogue, that is, reasoning about reasoning, and is a first step towards avoiding them. Avoiding cognitive biases completely is impossible but knowing that they exist allows us to consider stopping and asking ourselves some of the most common questions before acting in various life situations:

• Should we really "take these assessments at face value"?
• Are we making hasty considerations?
• By taking a few moments to reflect, could we make different and more convenient decisions for us?

Well, as usual, I have left you with some questions to make the most of for managing your thoughts, to be used as often as possible to be able to achieve a certain automaticity of thought control.