30 Seconds Summary5 Ways We Sabotage Success With Cognitive Biases
- Cognitive biases like narrative bias and conjunction fallacy can sabotage fitness success by distorting our perception and decision-making.
- Narrative bias causes individuals to create and believe stories that justify their behaviors, often leading to misconceptions about diet and exercise effectiveness.
- Conjunction fallacy leads people to overestimate the likelihood of specific scenarios, often complicating their fitness goals with unnecessary details.
- Sunk cost fallacy makes individuals continue using products or services that don't deliver results because they've invested money and emotions into them.
- Availability heuristic influences diet and fitness choices based on the most recently obtained or remembered information, rather than what's best or most effective.
- Survivorship bias causes people to emulate fitness programs of successful individuals without considering the many others who did not achieve success with the same methods.
- Understanding and mitigating these cognitive biases with tools like journals, logical assessments, and coaching can lead to more rational decisions in fitness and nutrition.
Stronger By Science
Tanner Baze
