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TOPIC: Thinking Patterns and Thinking Bias

This week, Dan and Merlin talk in detail about how our unconscious patterns of thinking can damage our quality of life and hinder our ability to grow.

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• Cognitive bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Don't You Dare Use 'Comprised Of' On Wikipedia: One Editor Will Take It Out : NPR
  For single-minded devotion to grammatical rectitude, you'd be hard-pressed to match a Wikipedia editor named Bryan Henderson, who goes by the user name of Giraffedata. He was the subject of a piece by Andrew McMillan on the long-form site Medium that provoked a lot of debate. Giraffedata has a single bee in his bonnet, the phrase "comprised of." He has written a 6,000-word essay on his Wikipedia user page explaining why he thinks it's an egregious error. And to drive home his point, he has made 47,000 edits over the last eight years, most of them aimed at purging the phrase wherever it occurs on the Wikipedia site. He doesn't show it any mercy even when it appears in a quotation — in his view, it's a kindness to writers not to quote their mistakes.
• Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman: 9780374533557: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Availability heuristic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.
• List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Cognitive biases are tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics.
• Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is people's tendency to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation, rather than considering external factors.
• Ep. 148: "Can't Find the Starch" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  The Problem: You need the belt to see the belt.
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• Xanadu (Rush song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Conspiracy (TV Movie 2001) - IMDb