Concepts

Humans are fundamentally biased. Myself included. This means that we have to give ourselves mental walking sticks so we don’t fall down. Just like an elderly gentleman with a walking stick, he can probably walk a fair distance without it, but with it he is more capable. I like to use questions to help me make better decisions. Every human does this on a daily basis. Is my alarm currently ringing? If so, then it’s...

Have you ever struggled to get to sleep because your brain was tormenting you over everything you were supposed to accomplish that day? You’re not the only one, this is something called the Zeigarnik Effect. In this article I am going to explore where the Zeigarnik effect came from, and what that means for us. Where it all began In the 1920’s there was a psychology professor by the name of Kurt Lewin who lectured...

A story from WWII During World War II, Abraham Wald was tasked with finding a way to decrease the number of losses to US aircraft. Based on his findings the military (the US Airforce didn’t exist then) would improve the structural make-up of aircraft and possibly change tact against the Axis powers. 95,000 American airplanes were destroyed in WWII so you can understand why this was a problem that needed to be fixed. The natural...