8 docs tagged with "psychology"

North Americans bullshit the most. Develop your mental device to detect deception, dishonesty, corruption, fraud, insincerity, hypocrisy and falsity.

Compared to deliberate deception, the cost of being exposed after bullshit is lower. The bullshit detector is a hypothetical psychological anti-deception mechanism. The key to countering bullshit lies in recognizing the asymmetry of risk; if the other party has no stakes but advocates for something, they profit when successful, but only you suffer losses when it fails, then they are bullshitting you.

Cognitive bias codex refers to procedures of the brain such as what should be remembered from memories. For things without enough information, brains imagine things to fill in characteristics. When there is too much information, we are drawn to notice something has changed.

Energy levels can be divided into four categories: Zombie, Robot, Mortal, and Transcendent. What can you do in each of these states? Zombie: Don't work or do mindless tasks; Robot: Do preset tasks; Mortal: Engage in exploratory work; Transcendent: Innovate.

There are four levels of energy: zombie, robot, human and rock star. Zombies had better not work or do little chore work. Robots do preset work. Humans do exploratory work. Rock stars can do anything and the best job for them is creative jobs.

Stress and rest equal growth; a reasonable allocation of stress and rest can lead to efficient and sustained growth. The rest of knowledge workers is used to restore willpower and attention. Short-term rest methods: timely outdoor walks; returning to nature; gathering with friends; taking short naps. Long-term rest: learning to meditate; ensuring sufficient sleep. Eliminate distractions that consume attention.

People will burn out when having too much pressure. A truly restful break can help them to recover willpower and the power of attention. To take truly restful breaks, you need to fully switch off, take short breaks early and often and get out of the office.

Representative heuristics are one of the methods people use to judge probabilities and valuations. During this process, people often mistakenly equate representativeness with probability. To better assist in probability judgments, the following factors should be considered: base rates, sample size, correct understanding of odds, predictability, caution against overconfidence leading to an illusion of validity in predictions, and regression to the mean.