Discover how your brain's automatic shortcuts secretly influence every decision you make. Drawing from Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking, Fast and Slow,' Julia Galef's 'Scout Mindset,' and Thaler & Sunstein's 'Nudge,' learn practical tools to recognize and outsmart these mental patterns in work and life.

How do psychological biases affect our everyday decisions?







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Nia: Welcome to the BeFreed Podcast, where we distill the world's best sources into personalized insights you can actually finish. I'm Nia.
Jackson: And I'm Jackson. Today we're diving into something that affects every decision you make, even when you don't realize it-psychological biases.
Nia: Oh, I'm excited about this one! You know that feeling when you look back at a decision and think, "What was I even thinking?" That's probably a bias at work.
Jackson: Exactly! These aren't bugs in our mental software-they're features of a brain built for speed in a noisy world. Some help us survive, while others quietly distort our judgments in everything from work decisions to relationships.