Tag
self-awareness
Entries tagged with self-awareness - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
6 concepts
Arrival Fallacy
The belief that achieving a particular goal will make you permanently happy - followed by the discovery that it doesn't.
Cognitive BiasBlind Spot Bias
The tendency to recognise cognitive biases in others while failing to see them in yourself.
Mental ModelCircle of Competence
Knowing the boundaries of what you genuinely understand - and having the discipline to stay inside them when it matters.
Cognitive BiasFrequency Illusion
Once you notice something for the first time, you suddenly seem to see it everywhere - not because it's more common, but because you're now looking for it.
Mental ModelIndependent Evaluation
Forming your own judgement about an idea or claim before looking at what everyone else thinks.
Mental ModelState of Nature Assumption
The unconscious belief about whether people are fundamentally selfish or fundamentally cooperative - and how that shapes everything else you think.