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 Tags: anger, change the world, domestic violence, failure, Feminism, feminists, Government, harassment, husband, life, living, marriage, media, myth, News, oppression, psychology, self help, Self Improvement, sexual harassment, society, wedding, wife, women, women empowerment |  Category: Feminism, Social |  Comments are closed At the turn and beginning of the 20th century, life was changing rapidly for Americans. People were moving from the farm to the city and taking jobs in the new industrial economy. Consumerism as we know it today really began to take root in society. Where most people had [...] Tags: Anxiety, Anxiousness, canned food, changing seasons, Cure, food cars, george miller, hubbub, indoor plumbing, industrial economy, life, mail order catalogs, Mental Disorder, mind, Neurasthenia, psychology, quack doctors, stress | Category: Self Improvement | Comments are closed Our minds set up many traps for us. Unless we’re aware of them, these traps can seriously hinder our ability to think rationally, leading us to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions. Features of our minds that are meant to help us may, eventually, get us into trouble. Here are the first 5 of the most harmful of these traps and how to avoid each one of them. 1. The Anchoring Trap: Over-Relying on First Thoughts“Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? What’s your best estimate?” Researchers asked this question to a group of people, and the estimates were seldom too far off 35 million. The same question was posed to a second group, but this time using 100 million as the starting point. Although both figures were arbitrary, the estimates from the ‘100 million’ group were, without fail, concomitantly higher than those in the ‘35 million’ group. (for the curious, here’s the answer.) Lesson: Your starting point can heavily bias your thinking: initial impressions, ideas, estimates or data “anchor” subsequent thoughts. This trap is particularly dangerous as it’s deliberately used in many occasions, such as by experienced salesmen, who will show you a higher-priced item first, “anchoring” that price in your mind, for example. Tags: best estimate, Brain, different perspectives, Fool-proof, frame of reference, initial impressions, mind, negative thinking, population of turkey, psychology, salesmen, second group, solution path, stupid decisions, swiss chocolate, Think, Thinking traps, two gifts | Category: Self Improvement | One comment - (Comments are closed) By John David Powell | Jul 31, 2009 You know it is time to take a closer look at a deal when the smarmy pitchman warns you to act now before it is too late. Unless a safe is falling on your [...] Tags: acts of god, Danger, department of homeland security, fear, fear reduction, frank furedi, Human Psychology, john david powell, national guardsmen, Panic, precautionary principle, psychology, Safety, sept 11 attacks, state of fear, wire tapping | Category: Social, Values | Comments are closed Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country. When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he [...] Tags: amount of money, anger, change the world, control, cows, distant areas, family, Government, harassment, heart, improvement, life, little piece of leather, living, long trip, piece of leather, prosperous country, psychology, relationship, self, self help, Self Improvement, society, success, suggestion, wise servant, world | Category: Self Improvement, Values | Comments are closed All living beings are afraid of pain. You will find that people don’t fear death as much as they fear the pain they may undergo at the time of death. Many are afraid of poverty, many of relationships failing, and others of disease. The root cause of all these [...] Tags: emotional pain, fear death, fear of pain, letter of request, life, living, loss of a child, Pain, pain and suffering, Personal, present moment, psychology, root cause, Self Improvement, sexual repression, society, time of death | Category: Self Improvement | Comments are closed |
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Posted on: December 1st, 2009