From the course: Making Tough Career Decisions

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When you're worried about bias in your decision making

When you're worried about bias in your decision making

From the course: Making Tough Career Decisions

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When you're worried about bias in your decision making

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- Your brain wants to make decisions fast to avoid stress and conserve physical energy. This means that cognitive biases can inadvertently shape your perspective and not always for the better. Let's take a look at five of the most common cognitive biases that pop up when making tough career decisions so you can recognize and prevent them. First is confirmation bias or the tendency to look for information that supports your existing beliefs and to ignore the rest. Someone who believes they're a strong candidate for a promotion may focus only on positive performance reviews and disregard critical feedback. They may rush into going for a promotion without thinking through the potential pitfalls of extra responsibility. To beat confirmation bias, challenge yourself with this question. What if the opposite of what I believe were true? This forces you to think critically and challenge your assumptions. Next is anchoring…

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