Thinking Clearly

Beginner 9 notes ~45 min

Our minds are remarkable pattern-matching machines, but those same shortcuts that help us navigate daily life can lead us astray when facing complex decisions.

This path walks through the landscape of cognitive biases — not to catalog failures, but to develop awareness. Understanding how we naturally think is the first step to thinking better.

By the end, you’ll have a vocabulary for recognizing common thinking traps and strategies for avoiding them.

Your Journey

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    How we perceive, learn, and make sense of complex environments

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    How first numbers stick and pull subsequent judgments

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    Judging probability by what comes easily to mind

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    Ignoring background probabilities when evaluating evidence

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    When selection creates false correlations

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    The tendency to perceive patterns in random noise

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    How you signal what you know and don't know

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    The epistemology of repair — how practitioners reason from symptoms to causes

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    The structure that separates expertise from mere experience

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