The Black Belt in Thinking Podcast

Cognitive Bias Episode 6 - Optimism Bias

Peter and Mirta's series on cognitive biases continues! 
There are a few different cognitive biases that have a powerful influence on how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. Each episode will touch on a different bias. So make sure you tune in to them all!
This week Peter and Mirta talk about the Optimism bias (or the optimistic bias) which is a bias that causes someone to believe that they themselves are less likely to experience a negative event. It is also known as unrealistic optimism or comparative optimism.
For example: people believing that they are less at risk of being a crime victim, smokers believing that they are less likely to contract lung cancer or disease than other smokers, first-time bungee jumpers believing that they are less at risk of an injury than other jumpers, or traders who think they are less exposed to potential losses in the markets.
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The hosts also love to hear any feedback or answer questions you may have, so feel free to send them a message at peter.cronin@viago.com.au or mirta@viago.co.nz! 

Cognitive Bias Episode 5 - Survivorship Bias

Peter and Mirta start a new series on cognitive biases! 
There are a few different cognitive biases that have a powerful influence on how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. Each episode will touch on a different bias. So make sure you tune in to them all!
This week Peter and Luke talk about the Survivorship Bias, which is a bias that can lead to overly optimistic beliefs because multiple failures are ignored. It can also lead to the false belief that the successes in a group have some special property, rather than just coincidence
For example, if three of the five students with the best college grades went to the same high school, that can lead one to believe that the high school must offer an excellent education when, in fact, it may be just a much larger school instead. This can be better understood by looking at the grades of all the other students from that high school, not just the ones who made the top-five selection process.
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The hosts also love to hear any feedback or answer questions you may have, so feel free to send them a message at peter.cronin@viago.com.au or mirta@viago.co.nz! 

Cognitive Bias Episode 4 - Anchoring

Peter and Mirta start a new series on cognitive biases! 
There are a few different cognitive biases that have a powerful influence on how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. Each episode will touch on a different bias. So make sure you tune in to them all!
This week Peter and Mirta talk about the Anchoring Bias, which is the tendency to over-rely on existing information or the first available information we get. 
For example, if we walk into a store and the first TV we see is $4999, our brains have a tendency to use this first piece of information as an anchor to other prices. As we walk through the store, TVs that we see over that price will all of a sudden seem too expensive, and TVs under that price will seem like a bargain (given similar specs). As such we are vulnerable to being taken advantage of by marketers and salespeople who use this bias to their advantage.
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The hosts also love to hear any feedback or answer questions you may have, so feel free to send them a message at peter.cronin@viago.com.au or mirta@viago.co.nz! 

Cognitive Bias Episode 3 - Availability Bias

Episode 3 of the series on cognitive bias! 
There are a few of the different cognitive biases that have a powerful influence on how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. Each episode will touch on a different bias. So make sure you tune in to them all!
This week Peter and Mirta talk about the Availability Bias, which is the human tendency to think that examples of things that come readily to mind are more representative than is actually the case. Naturally, the things that are most memorable can be brought to mind most quickly. However, there are a number of factors that influence how well we remember things. For example, we tend to remember things that we observed ourselves more easily than things that we only heard about.
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The hosts also love to hear any feedback or answer questions you may have, so feel free to send them a message! 
Peter Cronin - peter.cronin@viago.co.nz 
Mirta Fagundes dos Santos - mirta@viago.co.nz

Cognitive Bias Episode 2 - Halo Bias

Episode 2 of the series on cognitive bias! 
There are a few of the different cognitive biases that have a powerful influence on how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. Each episode will touch on a different bias. So make sure you tune in to them all!
This week Peter and Mirta talk about the Halo Bias and how it is a type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a person, influences how we feel and think about their character. Essentially, your overall impression of a person (He/she dresses well) impacts your evaluations of that person's specific traits (He/she must be smart!)
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Cognitive Bias Episode 1 - Confirmation Bias

Peter and Mirta start a new series on cognitive bias! 
There are a few of the different cognitive biases that have a powerful influence on how you think, how you feel, and how you behave. Each episode will touch on a different bias. So make sure you tune in to them all!
This week Peter and Mirta talk about confirmation bias, and how it is the tendency to listen more often to information that confirms our existing beliefs. Through this bias, people tend to favour information that reinforces the things they already think or believe.
 

Ep 3 Behaviour Change - How do we apply behaviour change? ft Mirta Fagundes

Behaviour Changes (ABC) - Episode 3
Our final episode of our behaviour change mini series!
How do we apply behaviour change?
Peter and Mirta finish up a three part series on behaviour, diving into how to apply behaviour change and all the learnings that have been discussed in the previous two episodes. Using examples and stories about application that have worked in the past, Peter and Mirta really give away all the tips and tricks that you as the listener need to apply these tools in your life
Tune in to find out more about behaviour change and how it has benefited so many people, in business and in their personal lives. 
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Ep 2 Behaviour Change - Supercharge your business, with Craig Chilcott and Peter Thorby

Behaviour Changes (ABC) - Episode 2
Supercharge your business!
This is episode two of our Behaviour Change (ABC) mini series. In this episode the two Peter's talks to Craig Chilcott about the massive changes that occurred in his business after leaning about ABC. There are some great stories in this episode that demonstrate the power of the tool. Beyond the tool, the team dive into a lot of great leadership and management skills that I think many listeners would benefit greatly from!
"My best year was $2million, once I went to behaviours, to ABC, $10million" - Craig Chilcott
If you would like to learn more about ABC, maybe even do a course on how to apply the tools talked about in this episode, don't hesitate to get in touch!
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