Cognitive Foibles Archives - The Big Picture

To hear an audio spoken word version of this post, click here. I published this in 2017 about people whose model of...

Source: Gapminder This is a very interesting collection — not so much rules, but a checklist of mental models and...

I had a long conversation with Jill Schlesinger of AARP regarding the market sell off back in March. We touched on numerous...

11 Cognitive Biases That Influence Political Outcomes Source: Visual Capitalist Overview: “With the 2020 U.S....

Too Much Uncertainty? The World Has Always Been Like This What’s changed is that many of the self-delusions we use to cope have broken...

Too Much Uncertainty? The World Has Always Been Like This What’s changed is that many of the self-delusions we use to cope have broken...

We tend to think of language as a driver of thought, but what if it is something older? Motion has been a part of human thought ever...

I am utterly fascinated by the concept of metacognition — how we evaluate and measure our own skills and abilities. This is the...

“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” –Not John Maynard Keynes I...

Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you...