Today's Learning: Spotlight Effect - We believe others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are. In reality, its not so. We also tend to believe that our emotions are more obvious than they are (Illusion of transparency).
Today's Learning: Do not be over optimistic about future events (Unrealistic Optimism). Practice Defensive pessimism, the adaptive value of anticipating problems and prepared to face them. As a Chinese proverb says "Be prepared for danger while staying in peace." #psychology
Today's learning: Immune Neglect: The human tendency to underestimate the speed and strength of the psychological immune system,which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen. We are amazingly resilient in most circumstances.#psychology #Myers
Our memories are not exact copies of experiences that remain on deposit in a memory bank; rather construct memories at the time of withdrawal. As John Kihlstrom said "Memory isn't like reading a book: Its more like writing a book from fragmentary notes."#Psychology #Myers
Belief perseverance: Clinging to initial beliefs and reasons why a belief might be true, even when the basis for belief is discredited. For example we often say I can't believe this...#psychology #Myers
Confirmation Bias: Tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions. #behavior #psychology
Planning Fallacy - Underestimating the time required to complete a future task, thereby displaying an optimistic bias in our decision making. Our plans must reflect the true nature of task while planning to complete it. #management #psychology
self-fulfilling prophecy: A sociopsychological phenomenon of someone "predicting" or expecting something, and this "prediction" or expectation coming true simply because the person believes it will. and the person's resulting behaviors aligning to fulfill the belief. #psychology
Cobra Effect: Occurs when the solution to a problem makes the problem even worse as an unintended consequence. Check @Wikipedia for an interesting anecdote on this effect. #India.
Necessity may be the mother of invention..but interdependence is the mother of affection - Eric Weiner.
Eisenhower Box - Use this to plan the tasks. Ref: The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking - Mikael Krogerus. 
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence" - Charles Bukowski. #illusion #superiority
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