Understanding, and breaking, our cognitive biases

By SharpBrains | June 24, 2014

5 Coun­ter­in­tu­itive Habits Of Tru­ly Authen­tic Lead­ers (Forbes): “When you hold a cer­tain belief or uncon­scious­ly decide on some­thing, you’ll have a ten­den­cy to focus on and favor infor­ma­tion that sup­ports your belief or deci­sion, dis­card­ing any­thing that con­tra­dicts it. 

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Learning about Learning: an Interview with Joshua Waitzkin

By Scott Barry Kaufman | January 21, 2009 |

In 1993, Para­mount Pic­tures released Search­ing for Bob­by Fis­ch­er, which depicts Joshua Wait­zk­in’s ear­ly chess suc­cess as he embarks on a jour­ney to win his first Nation­al chess cham­pi­onship. This movie had the effect of weak­en­ing his love for the game as well as the learn­ing process. His pas­sion for learn­ing was reju­ve­nat­ed, how­ev­er, after…

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