The Psychology of Mistakes: How to Fix Lazy Thinking

The biggest thing screwing us over is ourselves. Looking into the psychology of mistakes we find 7 common paths of lazy thinking where the brain takes shortcuts and causes it's own problems.

Sam discusses these psychological paths of least resistance and how we can build more awareness in our decisions and increase the wisdom in our choices and actions.

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00:00 Benefits of thinking hard thoughts

00:54 Why we optimize for the wrong things

02:51 7 biggest Psychological flaws

02:56 1st - Elimination of doubt

05:54 2nd - Single cause explanation to complex events 

08:15 3rd - Justifying our own actions whilst judging the actions of others

11:09 Morgan Housel - we are blind to the vast majority of what people are thinking

13:30 4th - Believe others see what we see

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18:29 5th - The desire to prioritize stories over statistics

21:14 6th - Outsourcing our hard decisions

24:37 7th - Naive Overconfidence

26:55 Annie Duke - Thinking of bets 

28:56 Accepting reality and probabilities

30:09 Outro

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