Logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and mind traps are essentially bugs in our brains that interfere with reasoning and rational thought. The first step to being a better thinker is to acknowledge these kinds of errors that cloud our judgement and hijack decision-making processes. This Escaping Ordinary video describes 21 of these "thinking errors" in 21 minutes.
Here are 21 of the most common thinking errors (video)
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