Three age-old secrets to take back control of your decisions.
Several thousand times a day, your brain lies to you. It makes you believe you decide freely, that you see clearly, that you're more rational than average, when in fact 95% of your choices are produced by automatisms inherited from 200,000 years of evolution. Human rationality isn't a given, it's a conquest.
The evidence: in one of the most famous experiments in social psychology, 75% of participants give at least once a manifestly wrong answer, simply because the group gave it before them. And fMRI shows that in conformists, the visual perception zones light up, not the social judgement zones. Conformism doesn't make us lie, it makes us see differently.
The stakes aren't about being smarter, but about being more lucid. From the three great cognitive traps to the antidotes contemporary science is rediscovering in ancient wisdoms, there are concrete techniques this talk reveals.
3 great cognitive traps that sabotage their decisions
5 validated techniques to slow the brain at the right moment
Why we systematically believe we are above average
How sages from 2,500 years ago had already figured it all out
Founder of Krakn Behavioural (applied behavioural sciences, Paris-Geneva). Member of the American Psychological Association, president of Cercle LAB. Teaches at Sciences Po and ESCP Executive Education. Author of Déjouez les pièges de votre cerveau (Alisio).
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