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Insight

Confirmation Bias

Framing

Creativity

Belief Perseverance

Algorithm

Intuition

Heuristic

Overconfidence

Fixation

Sudden Aha! reaction that instantly reveals the solution

Tendency to search for support for your own views and to ignore contradictory evidence.

Overestimating the accuracy of your beliefs and judgments; allow you to be happier and to make decisions more easily, but puts you at risk for errors.

Methodological rule or procedure that guarantees a solution but requires time and effort.

Simple thinking shortcut that enables quick and efficient decisions but puts us at risk for efforts.

The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.

Holding on to your beliefs even after they are proven wrong; closing your mind to new ideas.

Your fast, automatic effortless feelings and thoughts based on your experience; huge and adaptive but can lead you to overfeel and underthink.

Wording a question or statement so that it evokes a desired response; can mislead people and influence their decisions

Inability to view problems form a new angle; focuses thinking but hinders creative problem solving.