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How Biases Affect Our Thinking
How Biases Affect Our Thinking
How Biases Affect Our Thinking
Thinking
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by KURT JUAREZ
The Different Types of Biases
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Anticipating positive When we focus too much on
outcomes can help us negative information, we can
overcome negative biases become pessimistic and more
and make better decisions. prone to making bad decisions.
The Impact of Biases on
Decision-Making
1 Lower-Quality 2 3 Strained Relationships
Decisions Reduced Innovation
Unconscious Biases can Prejudices against
biases can limit our others can harm
greatly inhibit creativity and work relationships
our ability to prevent us and hurt team
make clear, from thinking dynamics, making
rational outside the collaboration and
decisions, box, ultimately communication
leading to holding us and difficult.
suboptimal our
outcomes and organizations
poor back.
performance.
The Science of Overcoming Biases
1 Acknowledge Your Biases
Become aware of your predispositions and challenge them by
seeking out alternative viewpoints.
2 Embrace Diversity
Engage with people from different backgrounds and
perspectives to expose yourself to new ways of thinking.
2 Self-Awareness is Key
By becoming more aware of our biases, we can better control
their impact on our decision-making and our lives in general.