https://cogniqos.com/ One named thinking error revealed every week. en https://cogniqos.com/concept/loss-aversion/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/loss-aversion/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don't risk what you can't afford to lose. I'm just being careful. https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quitting is failure. Perseverance separates winners from losers. The people who succeed are the ones who kept going when everyone else gave up. https://cogniqos.com/concept/plan-continuation-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/plan-continuation-bias/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular explanation blames character. People who press on into danger are cast as reckless or proud: 'they were too stubborn to turn back', 'they should have known better'. The fix that follows is a lecture about humility. https://cogniqos.com/concept/action-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/action-bias/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular version of this gets reduced to a motivational inversion: "don't just do something, stand there." It gets passed around as a clever paradox and then ignored. It reads as a license for laziness rather than a correction to a specific error. https://cogniqos.com/concept/omission-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/omission-bias/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A common explanation is that people avoid action because acting takes effort or nerve. The advice that follows is to be bolder. That advice fights the wrong enemy. Omission bias fires when action costs nothing and inaction costs everything and it fires hardest in people who are not timid at all. It fires in whoever will be named as the cause. https://cogniqos.com/concept/regret-aversion/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/regret-aversion/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular version of regret aversion says people are simply risk-averse or indecisive. Someone freezes, we call them cautious and move on. https://cogniqos.com/concept/hyperbolic-discounting/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/hyperbolic-discounting/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT People are impatient and lack discipline. https://cogniqos.com/concept/present-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/present-bias/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT People are short-sighted. They want instant gratification. https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-affect-heuristic/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-affect-heuristic/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Trust your gut. Or: don't trust your gut. https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-introspection-illusion/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-introspection-illusion/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular version treats introspection like reading a gauge: you look inward, the reason is sitting there, you report it. The mind as a transparent instrument. https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-bias-blind-spot/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-bias-blind-spot/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular version treats bias awareness as a vaccine. Learn the names anchoring, framing, sunk cost and you have inoculated yourself. https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-fluency-effect/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/the-fluency-effect/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Presentation matters. Make it look good. https://cogniqos.com/concept/curse-of-knowledge/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/curse-of-knowledge/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Experts are bad at explaining things. https://cogniqos.com/concept/illusion-of-transparency/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/illusion-of-transparency/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Just be confident, people can smell fear. https://cogniqos.com/concept/duping-delight/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/duping-delight/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular account of deception detection goes something like this: liars fidget, avoid eye contact, touch their faces and give themselves away through visible anxiety. This model is intuitive and nearly useless. It treats deception as a stress response and trains observers to scan for the wrong signal. https://cogniqos.com/concept/halo-effect/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/halo-effect/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don't judge a book by its cover. That assumes you can tell when you are doing it. The 1977 result says you cannot: the students could not feel the halo working and being told about it afterwards did not change their account. This is not a bias you catch in the act. It finishes its work before objectivity gets a turn, then hands you a clean story about why your judgment was sound. https://cogniqos.com/concept/fundamental-attribution-error/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/fundamental-attribution-error/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT People show you who they are. Consistent behavior is character. Character is destiny. https://cogniqos.com/concept/self-serving-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/self-serving-bias/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The popular framing treats self-serving bias as a vanity problem. Fix your arrogance and it dissolves. https://cogniqos.com/concept/outcome-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/outcome-bias/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Results speak for themselves. https://cogniqos.com/concept/hindsight-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/hindsight-bias/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anyone paying attention could have seen that coming. The signs were all there. I said this would happen. It was obvious. https://cogniqos.com/concept/narrative-fallacy/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/narrative-fallacy/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hindsight is 20/20. https://cogniqos.com/concept/survivorship-bias/ https://cogniqos.com/concept/survivorship-bias/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT We only see the winners.