Commitment Bias: How To Avoid and Benefit From It

Why is ending a long relationship so hard?​Even if you know it’s not good for you anymore, it’s still difficult to end it.​The answer is commitment.​Your friends know your partner, you have photos on Instagram together and you have shared how happy you were.​So the imaginary stakes of a breakup are high.​Because your mind tries to be consistent with your…

Hindsight Bias Meaning, Examples, and How to Avoid It

Hindsight bias is a fallacy where people feel they knew how things would turn out after the events occurred. Take yourself back to December 2019. A new decade is about to start. Who was expecting a pandemic that’d keep us under lockdown and change how we live for years? Who was expecting a war in…

Concorde Fallacy: How to Avoid Making Decisions Like A Losing Gambler

The Concorde fallacy is a mental bias where people continue spending resources (money, time, or effort) on failing projects because of a prior commitment. Let’s see the story of Concorde and how a fallacy was named after it. Concorde was an impressive aircraft. It had an elegant design, with a maximum speed over twice the…