The way you think right now is the product of the system. Your parents, your teachers, People you spend time with, your context, have defined how you think. It’s all fine but there is something you need to be aware of. That thing is cognitive biases.

Unfortunately, the folks running the system understood quite early that they can use this stuff, cognitive biases, to significantly drive the way you will think and act. Cognitive biases are incorrect ways to think that appear to us as being correct if we do not know the trick at play.

Thinking tricks you should be aware of. For each trick we will tell you how do you behave when you adopt this trick and what you should do to get rid of this trick.

• Optimism bias

  You tend to think that bad things are less likely to happen to you.

  Based on factual data, can you roughly estimate the probability that something good or something bad happen?