We tell each other stories
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 3:26 am
Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me in this new episode of the podcast "Walk with Johan". And today, we're going to talk a little bit about personal development and in particular a subject related a little bit to our brain and how our brain works. It's a bit of a psychological subject. The title is: "We tell ourselves stories".
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So today, I wanted to talk to you about a psychological phenomenon that affects all human beings, really. And I would like us to see how not to fall into the trap that it sets for us, because often psychological phenomena or certain ways that our brain functions, well, they set traps for us. We call them "biases".
A bias is when our way of reasoning uk whatsapp number data or our way of using our brain leads us to make a mistake. It is a bias. We make mistakes because our brain has a kind of illusion. And this illusion comes from the fact that… well we are going to see the example today, but there are many others. Our brain is not capable of considering all the parts of the environment around us.
We live in a very complex world, very very complicated, and our brain, for its survival, since the only mission of our brain is to survive, it's not to be happy, it's to survive, well for us to survive, the brain has developed shortcuts, ways of interpreting the world, of interpreting the environment, and these shortcuts can work in many cases, but they can push us to make a certain number of errors.
And today, the bias I would like to talk about is induction. So induction as such is not a bias. Induction is a psychological phenomenon, it is a way that our brain has of simplifying reality, but it can push us to make bad decisions.
So induction, it seems like a complicated word, but in fact it's simple. I'm going to read you... I wrote down the Wikipedia definition and then I'll give you some even more simplified explanations, but Wikipedia tells us that induction is the name used to mean a kind of reasoning, therefore a way of thinking, which proposes to look for general laws from the observation of particular facts on a probabilistic basis.
So thank you for joining me. If you haven't already, I really invite you to join the Authentic French newsletter . You will get exclusive content directly in your mailbox very regularly. You have a link in the description of this episode.
So today, I wanted to talk to you about a psychological phenomenon that affects all human beings, really. And I would like us to see how not to fall into the trap that it sets for us, because often psychological phenomena or certain ways that our brain functions, well, they set traps for us. We call them "biases".
A bias is when our way of reasoning uk whatsapp number data or our way of using our brain leads us to make a mistake. It is a bias. We make mistakes because our brain has a kind of illusion. And this illusion comes from the fact that… well we are going to see the example today, but there are many others. Our brain is not capable of considering all the parts of the environment around us.
We live in a very complex world, very very complicated, and our brain, for its survival, since the only mission of our brain is to survive, it's not to be happy, it's to survive, well for us to survive, the brain has developed shortcuts, ways of interpreting the world, of interpreting the environment, and these shortcuts can work in many cases, but they can push us to make a certain number of errors.
And today, the bias I would like to talk about is induction. So induction as such is not a bias. Induction is a psychological phenomenon, it is a way that our brain has of simplifying reality, but it can push us to make bad decisions.
So induction, it seems like a complicated word, but in fact it's simple. I'm going to read you... I wrote down the Wikipedia definition and then I'll give you some even more simplified explanations, but Wikipedia tells us that induction is the name used to mean a kind of reasoning, therefore a way of thinking, which proposes to look for general laws from the observation of particular facts on a probabilistic basis.