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self-awareness

Entries tagged with self-awareness - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

6 concepts

Psychological Phenomenon

Arrival Fallacy 

The belief that achieving a particular goal will make you permanently happy - followed by the discovery that it doesn't.

Cognitive Bias

Blind Spot Bias 

The tendency to recognise cognitive biases in others while failing to see them in yourself.

Mental Model

Circle of Competence 

Knowing the boundaries of what you genuinely understand - and having the discipline to stay inside them when it matters.

Cognitive Bias

Frequency 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 Model

Independent Evaluation 

Forming your own judgement about an idea or claim before looking at what everyone else thinks.

Mental Model

State of Nature Assumption 

The unconscious belief about whether people are fundamentally selfish or fundamentally cooperative - and how that shapes everything else you think.