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Egocentric Bias: Why your thoughts matter more to you than anyone else

Idea to Value

Then you might be suffering from a cognitive bias known as the Egocentric Bias. What is the Egocentric Bias? Egocentric bias is the tendency for people to rely too heavily on one’s own perspective, and/or have a higher opinion of oneself than is actually true.

Study 176
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People never think of improving something by removing parts of it

Idea to Value

This added cognitive load seemed to decrease the likelihood that participants would come up with subtractive solutions, suggesting that it takes some mental energy for people to overcome a natural tendency to ignore subtractive options. And that under cognitive load, we are even less likely to think of removing something to improve it.

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

Decisions are still being made based on highly filtered data, limited perspectives and simple heuristics and are subject to a multitude of human cognitive biases. Digital transformation is a hot topic today and there is near universal agreement that it is happening. . – it is still, basically, a human intelligence business.