Glitch Theology Dispatches
The Optimisation Trap — Why Your Brain’s Refusal to Be Fixed Is the Most Intelligent Thing About You
There is a $4.5 trillion industry built on a single premise: that you are broken, and that the right system, supplement, or subscription can fix you. Productivity apps. Sleep trackers. Dopamine detoxes.…
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The Optimisation Trap — Why Your Brain’s Refusal to Be Fixed Is the Most Intelligent Thing About You
Every app, every guru, every algorithm is trying to patch your firmware.…
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The ‘I Knew It!’ Brain | Why You Only Believe What You Already Think (Confirmation Bias)
Confirmation Bias is the unconscious tendency to favor information that…
The ‘Invisible Gorilla’ Brain | Why You Don’t See What’s Right in Front of You (Inattentional Blindness)
Inattentional Blindness is the failure to perceive an unexpected stimulus…
The ‘It Was Me!’ Brain | Why We Take All the Credit, But None of the Blame (Self-Serving Bias)
The Self-Serving Bias is the tendency to attribute successes to…
The ‘First Number Wins’ Brain | Why Initial Prices Control Your Budget (The Anchoring Bias)
The Anchoring Bias is a cognitive bias that causes decisions…
The ‘I’m Due for a Win’ Brain | Why You Trust Bad Luck is Ending (The Gambler’s Fallacy)
The Gambler's Fallacy is the mistaken belief that if a…
The ‘Just Five Minutes More’ Brain | Why Everything Takes Longer Than Planned (The Planning Fallacy)
The Planning Fallacy is a predictable cognitive bias that causes…
The ‘Someone Else Will Do It’ Brain | Why Groups Make You Lazy (Social Loafing)
Social Loafing is the psychological phenomenon where individuals exert less…
The ‘My Sweat, My Gold’ Brain | Why Hard Work Makes You Love Anything (Effort Justification)
Effort Justification is a cognitive bias where the harder a…
The ‘Losing Hurts More’ Brain | Why You Fear Risk and Hate Selling Low (Loss Aversion / Prospect Theory)
Prospect Theory, developed by Kahneman and Tversky, describes how people…
The ‘Always Right’ Brain | Why You Only Hear What Confirms Your Beliefs (Confirmation Bias)
Confirmation Bias is the tendency to favor information that confirms…