Types of Bias

6. Being too confident in your ability to make a decision might blind you to more rational thinking.
8. When you focus on success stories, you might miss how difficult it's been for others to achieve the same goals.
10. Do you avoid negative input? You might be avoiding information you don't like to hear.
11. If you don't know which biases you have, you might not know how they affect your thinking.
12. Preconceptions can make it harder to be open to opposing ideas.
13. When you assume someone has the traits of a larger group, you fail to identify the individual.
14. You might lean too much on how a decision played out rather than how you arrived at that decision.

1. Your expectations might influence your opinion.
2. Keep referencing anecdotal information? You might be relying too much on stories about people you know rather than a wide scope of data.
3. You might be too quick to believe in an event's outcome, similar to how a person taking a sugar pill is convinced it will help their headache.
4. Don't want to take a chance? Focusing on goals that guarantee success means you miss out on riskier propositions that could pay off in the end.
5. Once you make a choice, you might tend to support that choice no matter what.
7. The more people believe in an idea, the more likely you might be to share it.
9. The first bit of information you hear might have too much influence on your decisions.