Your brain doesn’t always steer you towards what’s best for you...especially in your 20s. Sometimes it convinces you to stay in the wrong relationship, give up after one rejection or believe you should have your entire life figured out by 25 even though you know that's not true! Why is that?
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In today’s episode, we explore six cognitive biases that shape our decisions in our 20s, including:
Why we underestimate how long good things will take
How instant gratification keeps us putting off our goals
Why we keep investing in things we know aren’t right
Why rejection and change rarely feel as bad as we predict
How recent experiences distort our expectations
Why we judge others more harshly than ourselves
We also discuss how to catch these biases in action and stop letting automatic assumptions make your biggest decisions.
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