Lay Off Your Cognitive Biases

How do you stop your own brain from sabotaging your career, even if you've never studied psychology?

Do you make thousands of decisions every day without ever questioning the mental shortcuts behind them?

Have you ever wondered why smart, capable people still make disastrous professional mistakes?

Are you stuck in a mundane routine, succeeding but missing the fresh perspective you know you need?

Cognitive biases, first introduced by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, are the mental shortcuts your brain uses to sift through the roughly 11 million pieces of information you face at any moment. The problem is that those same shortcuts can lead to irrational, false, or costly conclusions, at work and in life.

In this book, you will discover:

• Six thought-provoking questions — to eliminate unconscious bias during your decision-making process.
• Seven obvious indicators — of cognitive bias in a person, no psychology degree required.
• Three reasons — you may act against your own values, and a practical four-step plan to resolve it.
• The "Mount Stupid" mistake — the crucial error that could cost you your job, and six strategies to overcome it.
• The negative self-talk cycle — how to end it for good, even if you keep making mistakes.
• The emotional detachment technique — the scientific approach to use instead of reacting emotionally at work.
• Elon Musk's secret — behind his professional and personal growth.

…this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Even if you're not looking for a magic fix, this book gives you real strategies you can turn into lasting habits.

Don't let your brain become the biggest hurdle to your success —.