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A bad outcome does not mean it came from a faulty decision making process. That’s just one trap of the outcome bias.

Life is filled with people certain they “just know” about a topic, event or person. Yet what people “just know” can be wrong, choking off the learning needed to fully understand.

Most of us know that what we think is not what others must think, yet we can be prone to ignoring this. We see a consensus that just isn’t there.

We think of our eyes as a camera, reproducing reality exactly so we can act on it. But what if we cannot see some things because we unconsciously don’t want to see them?

You might assume Einstein is one of the few who used 100 percent of his brain. You’d be wrong because we all do.

We tend to think that continuing to get more information always leads to a better decision. That’s not always the case.

There are ways to help people who believe in an unfounded conspiracy think more carefully. Arguing with them, however, doesn’t work.

Using an analogy to make or defend a decision is an attractive device but risks several pitfalls in thinking.

We do not need to be fooled by fake news. There are websites and thinking tools that help us spot it.

False information spreads rapidly in the digit age - and we often don’t know we’re spreading it.