The Psychology of Mistakes - 7 Ways To Fix Lazy Thinking
10/29/24 • 34 min
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We celebrate 'hard work" but forget to consider the benefits of thinking "hard thoughts".
This episode teaches how to navigate uncertainty without taking easy options by building a capacity for complexity.
- Allow doubt to improve our decisions
- Understand multiple causes behind outcomes
- Reduce judgement of others
- Improve your field of vision
- Weight statistics properly
- Take ownership of forming opinion without using others
- Accept lower confidence and greater accuracy
The mind is full of complexity and it relentlessly tries to optimise and take shortcuts. This serves is well in many aspects but cultivating a practice of taking the harder path in our thinking allows us to see hidden truths behind out assumptions.
To arrive at better decisions we need to learn to balance uncertainty with statistics and see beyond our limited field of view. It isn't easy but the benefits can greatly improve your outcomes and your mindsets.
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Growth Mindset Psychology:
Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
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Chapters:
00:00 Benefits of thinking hard thoughts
01:12 Optimizing for the wrong things
03:59 1st - Elimination of doubt
06:55 2nd - Single cause explanation to complex events
09:12 3rd - Justification of your own action whilst judging the actions of others
12:02 Morgan Housel - we are blind to the vast majority of what people are thinking
12:12 Lessons from the book 'Evil'
14:20 4th - Your own field of vision is the same as everyone else's
18:05 5th - The desire to prioritize stories over statistics
20:46 6th - Outsourcing our hard decisions to the opinions of pundits, consultants, and experts
24:09 7th - Overconfidence
26:21 Annie Duke - Thinking of bets
28:22 Accepting probabilities and the reality of a situation
29:33 Outro
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We celebrate 'hard work" but forget to consider the benefits of thinking "hard thoughts".
This episode teaches how to navigate uncertainty without taking easy options by building a capacity for complexity.
- Allow doubt to improve our decisions
- Understand multiple causes behind outcomes
- Reduce judgement of others
- Improve your field of vision
- Weight statistics properly
- Take ownership of forming opinion without using others
- Accept lower confidence and greater accuracy
The mind is full of complexity and it relentlessly tries to optimise and take shortcuts. This serves is well in many aspects but cultivating a practice of taking the harder path in our thinking allows us to see hidden truths behind out assumptions.
To arrive at better decisions we need to learn to balance uncertainty with statistics and see beyond our limited field of view. It isn't easy but the benefits can greatly improve your outcomes and your mindsets.
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👋 Free Call - Schedule Link
📧 Email - GrowthMindsetPodcast (@) gmail,com
Growth Mindset Psychology:
Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset)
🛜 Website - GrowthMindsetPodcast.com
Chapters:
00:00 Benefits of thinking hard thoughts
01:12 Optimizing for the wrong things
03:59 1st - Elimination of doubt
06:55 2nd - Single cause explanation to complex events
09:12 3rd - Justification of your own action whilst judging the actions of others
12:02 Morgan Housel - we are blind to the vast majority of what people are thinking
12:12 Lessons from the book 'Evil'
14:20 4th - Your own field of vision is the same as everyone else's
18:05 5th - The desire to prioritize stories over statistics
20:46 6th - Outsourcing our hard decisions to the opinions of pundits, consultants, and experts
24:09 7th - Overconfidence
26:21 Annie Duke - Thinking of bets
28:22 Accepting probabilities and the reality of a situation
29:33 Outro
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Previous Episode
7 Painful Paradoxes of Self-Improvement that Create More Problems Than They Solve
A lot of the self-improvement industry and advice is backwards. The more books we read the further away from our goals we become.
Ultimately we want to be happier yet we are accruing more and more things to fix before we are happy with ourselves.
In this episode, we explore the biggest paradoxes where the work we do can make us more brittle and breakable:
- Effortlessness Paradox - The harder we try the harder we make it
- Happiness Paradox - Pursuing Happiness instead chases it away
- Validation paradox - Seeking external validation prevents internal validation
- Emotions paradox - Suppressing emotions makes them overwhelm us
- The Shadow - Rejecting our flaws makes them worse
- Planning Paradox - Overplanning reduces adaptability
- Self-Improvement Paradox - The more things you find to fix the more broken you feel
Searching and finding can be different things.
We learn a more subtle approach to self-improvement that spends more time building wisdom and focusing on smaller immediately actionable steps with less chasing and running in circles.
We find answers to the question "How do we balance the art of wanting to improve whilst also wanting to live in contentment in the present?"
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Growth Mindset Psychology:
Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset)
🛜 Website - GrowthMindsetPodcast.com
Chapters:
00:00 The Effortlessness Paradox
03:08 The Messy Reality of Self-Improvement
04:23 Introduction to the Growth Mindset Psychology Podcast
05:14 The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness
07:49 The Paradox of Validation
10:52 The Paradox of Emotions
12:53 Carl Jung and the Shadow Concept
13:49 Acceptance Over Rejection
15:07 The Planning Paradox
16:29 Understanding Uncertainty Tolerance
16:47 Steve Jobs' Journey of Adaptability
17:27 Embracing the Unexpected
18:06 The Paradox of Self-Improvement
18:44 The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Self-Help
19:49 The Slow Process of Real Change
22:12 Balancing Self-Improvement and Acceptance
25:22 The Timid Cat Analogy for Happiness
26:33 Final Thoughts and Farewell
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Next Episode
The Psychology of Last Minute Voters - The hidden mind games controlling the election
Conflicted, Confused, and Ready to Vote - Uncovering the discombobulated thoughts of the great undecided who will sway the election.
We dive into the hidden forces in our minds that sway our decisions when we don't know how to decide. From Free Will to Confirmation Bias, Appearances and a Turn of Phrase. What doesn't matter and what could make all the difference in a voters mind.
We cover:
- Where do our preferences come from
- How we shortcut confusing decisions into simple flawed decisions
- The impact of last-minute scandals
- What each side doesn't understand?
- The irrational nature of sensible people
- Who has been overlooked by politics and what are they thinking
The 60th US election coming on November 5th between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has been on the news non stop for a year. Finally, it will all be over and we can move on with our lives.
13% of people remain undecided but with their vote being crucially important in an otherwise 50:50 race, the nuanced factors that sway their thinking have never been more important.
Tune in to uncover the psychology of last-minute voters and the hidden mind games controlling the election.
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Get in Touch
👋 Free Call - Schedule Link
📧 Email - GrowthMindsetPodcast (@) gmail,com
Growth Mindset Psychology:
Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset)
🛜 Website - GrowthMindsetPodcast.com
Chapters:
00:00 Beyond politics - the psychology of elections
02:27 Introduction to Election Tipping Points
03:16 Heuristics and Decision Making behind voter psychology
04:13 Voter Biases and Simplification
05:02 The Role of Vibes in Decision Making
05:39 Campaign Influence and Free Will
07:36 Impact of Random Events
09:00 Trump's Resilience to Scandals
09:26 Comparing Trump and Kamala Harris
15:37 Elon Musk's Influence
16:59 Campaign Strategies for the Final Week
20:43 The Power of Podcasts in Campaigns
23:10 Trump's Podcast Strategy
26:55 Kamala Harris's Debate Performance
27:38 Media Misconceptions About Psychology
33:43 Collective Dissatisfaction in Politics
36:43 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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