Why doesn’t anyone bet on red and dare get dark in the same game?Why do we sometimes get stuck in personal and professional projects, although we know they are impossible to achieve?How does the horoscope give the correct forecast?The explanation may be in the psychological effects we feel in our daily lives.
Our brain is creative and receives stimuli, experiences, emotions and reasoning.
- Over the years.
- We have gained experience and believe we can steer ourselves in the right direction when it comes to work.
- Family.
- Friends and free time.
“For our brains, it’s more important to tell a coherent story than a real story. “
-Eduardo Punset-
However, the perfect machine that is the brain has deficiencies and can make mistakes, sometimes because of overconfid confidence and sometimes because of a physical problem.
We can be aware of certain kinds of errors, such as the effects of perception (confusion of colors, distances, speeds or depths) and there are others that we are not aware of and that we cannot see or feel.
Prejudice is nothing but prejudice. A misleading and misinterpretation of reality that becomes logical because we have some of the information available or reject the other party.
Heuristics (or mental shortcuts) are as absolutely necessary as they are potentially wrong. If so, what are they for?
The main idea is that we are not prepared to assimilate all the information we receive through the five senses.
Processing, ordering, analyzing and integrating information into our mental processes, to give a later response, is a slow and exhausting process that would destroy our mental resources.
“Complex thinking requires effort, and when deciding between two paths, our brain chooses the simplest. Is mental stress a cost and does the brain tend to save?.
-Daniel Kahneman ?
The mind uses these shortcuts to work; it’s a strategy we use, as real as logical reasoning and assumptions. It’s a way to get to the final idea.
In the world of psychology, several studies have been conducted to show whether these kinds of shortcuts exist.
In recent years some old research has been reproduced that have led to confirmation of its existence.
If you don’t recognize you in any of these psychological effects, you’ll likely accidentally fall into another bias: the blind spot, that is, we see the stain on the neighbor’s eye and not the bar in ours.
Biases are necessary, even if they often lead us to bitter rather than sweet.
“If our brains were so simple that we could understand it, we’d be so stupid we wouldn’t understand it yet. “Jostein Gaarder-