Outsmart Your Instincts

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Episode 06: Confirmation Bias Apr 09, 2018

Innovation Process Facilitator Cynthia Ryan joins Adam Hansen on The Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast to discuss the Confirmation Bias. According to an MIT study, false information is 70% more likely to be shared on Twitter than true stories. One of the reasons? Confirmation Bias. Confirmation Bias definition: Confirmation Bias causes us to seek out and then interpret information based on our preexisting beliefs. Be sure to subscribe to stay-up-to-date on everything innovation and Cognitive Biases!

Episode 05: Confabulation Feb 13, 2018

Innovation Process Facilitator, Dina Pancoast, joins Adam Hansen on the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast as they discuss Confabulation. Tune in to hear how to best overcome Confabulation and generate better ideas with the Behavioral Innovation™ approach. Confabulation definition: Confabulation is when we make decisions intuitively and nonconsciously, and rationalize the decisions after the fact. Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

Episode 04: Status Quo Bias Jan 11, 2018

Ideas To Go Principal and Innovation Process Facilitator Christine Haskins joins Adam Hansen on the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast. Tune in to learn how to best overcome the Status Quo Bias and generate better ideas with the Behavioral Innovation™ approach. Status Quo Bias definition: this Bias makes us default to keeping things the same. When new opportunities arise, we would rather stay with what we have than switch to something new. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast!

Episode 03: The Curse of Knowledge Nov 20, 2017

Innovation Process Facilitator Greg Cobb joins host Adam Hansen on the Outsmart Your Instincts podcast as they discuss the Curse of Knowledge. This Bias is so ingrained in our minds that we even have to double check for it while recording the podcast! And here is the New York Times article about Crazy Ants that we reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

Episode 02: Availability Bias Nov 06, 2017

Beth Storz, President of Ideas To Go, joins colleague and co-author Adam Hansen on Episode 2 of the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast. Listen as they discuss examples of—and define—Availability Bias and provide techniques to overcoming it during innovation. Availability Bias: how our minds retrieve information from the most recent memories first. Along with the most recent events, emotionally charged memories are also easily retrieved. In other words, what’s available is what’s easy to recall.

Episode 01: Negativity Bias Oct 19, 2017

Ed Harrington, CEO of Ideas To Go, talks with his colleague and co-author, Adam Hansen, about how to spot, deal with, and even combat Negativity Bias. It’s not just about being kind when you hear a far-out idea. It’s also about being mindful. Negativity Bias refers to the brain giving more weight to negative events, even in the presence of equally important positive events. In this sense, bad is stronger than good. Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

Podcast Introduction: Outsmart Your Instincts Oct 19, 2017

Beth Storz, Ed Harrington, and Adam Hansen—co-authors of the book Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation™ Approach Drives Your Company Forward—discuss the evolution of Cognitive Biases and identify the 8 that impede innovation. Subscribe to stay up to date on everything innovation!

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