2017-10-19
22 分钟Hey, it's Jonathan Fields with today's Good Life project update.
Today we're going to be diving into two different things.
In our riff, we'll be talking about kind of a unique cognitive bias that messes with the way we see the world and make decisions.
And we're also going to explore a particular type of brain training, some research on one specific type of brain training in our science update that actually pretty seriously outperforms other forms of brain training.
We've seen a lot of brain training out there in the market these days, and we're gonna do a bit of myth busting with today's science update.
Excited to dive in with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So, on today's Good Life project riff, I'm actually gonna kick off a series on something called cognitive bias.
So what is this thing?
Cognitive bias is a tendency that we have.
It's basically, it's baked into all human beings, and it's something that very often leads us to make irrational decisions.
So we like to think of ourselves as, you know, intelligent thinking, feeling rational human beings.
You know, we think that if somebody presents us with a certain amount of information, we can look at that information and we can figure out what is valid, what's not valid, what makes sense.
We can weigh it.
We can do our pluses and minuses, our pros and cons, and then based on this, we can drop it into a spreadsheet if we want.
We can make intelligent decisions, rational decisions, and sometimes we can.
But it turns out that very often, what we think is rational is anything but.
And part of the reason is because we have these tendencies, these orientations that control the way that we process information, the way that we take it in, the way that we make decisions with it, and the way we behave once we've made decisions, very often in the context of buying something or giving something away or saying yes or no to something.
The thing is, most of us have no idea that these less than conscious biases or tendencies are in operation.
We don't see them.