Humans are naturally prone to 'resulting,' a heuristic that incorrectly judges the quality of a decision based solely on the outcome.

“we have this simplifier the shortcut called resulting so what we do is we say if I know what the quality of the outcome is I can work backwards from that to the quality of the decision”

The feeling of certainty is a signal of cognitive fluency rather than evidence of accuracy, making intuitive conclusions unreliable.

“The strength of your intuition about something, how right it feels, how obvious it seems, how confident you are, has almost no correlation with whether you're actually correct.”

Proportionality bias is the tendency to believe that big events must have causes that are equally big in magnitude.

“we want to proportion causes and effects they should be roughly equal”

Acknowledging the existence of cognitive biases is a necessary step for attempting to overcome them.

“Um, the first one is just being aware that you have these, which is something that we've already kind of kind of worked through on this episode”

Humans are inherently hardwired to use mental shortcuts that lead to cognitive biases.

“And this stuff is hardwired into us because like I just said, we take mental shortcuts. And the problem, Chuck, is what we're talking about mostly today are unconscious biases,”

Human perception is not passive but is fundamentally predicated on action and the pursuit of goals.

“perception is not passive there is no perception without action ever ever and that's a weird thing to understand”

Using the body, surroundings, and social connections is a more accurate way to understand and enhance human cognition than viewing it as a solo, brain-bound process.

“I think it was a learning process for me, and hopefully I was able to share the fruits of that with the reader.”