High Quality Mental Shortcuts

Описание: Mental shortcuts or heuristics allow us to quickly solve problems, make judgments, come to conclusions, and bypass the inconvenience of deep thinking, as deep thinking is a process that consumes more mental resources. We often rely on mental shortcuts to filter how we view the world, simplify our day-to-day life interactions, combat an argument, or even make life-changing decisions.

The goal of a mental shortcut is to get us from point A to point B without too much cognitive load, skipping the part where we think through the downsides of choosing a particular path.

But mental shortcuts (heuristics) are not always true, and we must learn to notice them whenever they invade our reasoning.

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