How your brain misleads you — and what to do about it
Your brain isn't broken. It's biased. And that's actually good news because biases are predictable, which means they're interruptible.
This series walks through the most common cognitive biases that affect everyday life: relationships, decisions, anxiety, and self-perception. Each post explains a specific pattern, shows you how to recognise it, and gives you a practical tool to work with it.
Start with Post 1 for the foundation, or jump to any topic that resonates.
The foundation: what cognitive bias actually is, the input-story-action chain, and the 90-Second Bias Interrupt.
Bias is universal, but blind spots are personal. Identifying your repeating patterns.
A decision-quality framework: clarity, priorities, consequences.
When bias becomes invisible even to ourselves.
How mental shortcuts can become mental prisons.
Why "learn from success" often teaches the wrong lessons.
When being different becomes an identity trap.
The psychology of staying too long in relationships, jobs, and habits.
The mechanism behind avoidance, reassurance-seeking, and quick fixes.
How memorable examples distort probability and fuel anxiety.
The power of the first number, label, or story you encounter.
How we build cases against ourselves and others.
Why hindsight creates unfair self-judgement.
Good outcomes don't mean good decisions and vice versa.
Why we judge others by character but ourselves by situation.
The asymmetry of emotional weighting and what to do about it.
Why you overestimate how visible your internal state is.
Underestimating time, effort, and the road to relapse.
The gap between confidence and accuracy and calibration thinking.
When checking, reassurance, and safety behaviours make things worse.
If you're noticing the same biases showing up repeatedly, therapy can help you build new responses.
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