Take a second
We are human beings, not robots. It is good to remind ourselves of that fact every once in a while.
As humans, we make decisions. Sometimes, they come from our lizard brain, as Seth likes to say. The lizard brain has a purpose, and it is to keep us alive.
Keeping us alive means bad decision-making. It creates cognitive bias.
One bias that affects us is the availability bias, which is when we rely on the first impression.
You know the saying, don’t judge a book by its cover? Well, we often do, and we pay the price. The first impression is often wrong. Every time we “just knew” something about someone, there is 100 times where we were just off.
This is worth remembering when we are “sure” of an idea or person.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 