Managing the Smart Mind

Episode 39 - How to stop confirmation bias from secretly sabotaging your life

Else Kramer Season 1 Episode 39

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This week I look at something that can secretly sabotage your plans to change your life and relationships: confirmation bias.

You'll learn:

  1. what confirmation bias is
  2. why your brain is prone to it
  3. how it can be harmful
  4. how to unearth it (it's often unconscious)
  5. how to rewire your neural pathways towards better biases

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

Visual explainer of confirmation bias:
https://we.tl/t-UY6AWEyRZ3

Podcast Episodes on Black and White Thinking with lots of practical tips that also help with confirmation biases:
Episode 12
Episode 13

The Work of Byron Katie - one of my favourite tools to challenge your biases and paradigms

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