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Why Smart People Make Dumb Decisions (And How to Stop)

How Your Brain Sabotages Success.

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Are you making costly mistakes without even realizing it? In this eye-opening episode of the Inner Coach Podcast, we explore the psychology of decision-making and reveal the hidden mental traps that can sabotage your success in business and life.

Discover the Three Most Dangerous Mental Shortcuts Learn about the three most common heuristics (mental shortcuts) that lead even the most intelligent people astray:

1. What You See Is All There Is: Why we often make decisions based on incomplete information and how to avoid this trap.

2. Anchoring: How seemingly irrelevant information can dramatically influence our judgments and decisions.

3. The Narrative Fallacy: Why do our brains create oversimplified stories to explain complex events, and how this can lead us to false conclusions?

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