Cognitive Biases

You can’t remove biases; you can notice and soften them. Spot the pattern, then choose a small corrective action.

Common patterns

Catastrophising, mind-reading, fortune telling, black-and-white thinking, filtering out positives.

Ask for data, seek one disconfirming example, rate certainty (0–100%), write the “balanced thought”.

Keep a tiny card in wallet/phone with your 3 most common distortions and a counter-move for each.