Want to Communicate Effectively at Work? Eliminate These 5 Cognitive Distortions

Occasional errors in thinking make us form an inaccurate view of reality and stick with it, thereby impacting our behaviors and actions

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Better Programming

10 min readAug 2, 2022

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cognitive distortions. Heaven’s reward fallacy — I must be rewarded for my hard work and sacrifice. curse of knowledge — why can’t others understand such simple ideas? fundamental attribution error — this who they are. fallacy of change — circle of influence, circle of concern that others need to change. bike shedding which has four quadrants trivial, easy, important, and hard. bike shedding is in the easy and trivial quadrant — Credit: Author

In part 1 on cognitive distortions, I wrote about the five cognitive distortions that impact your…

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Author: Books on Mindset, Imposter Syndrome. Scaling products ￫ Scaling thinking (⊙_⊙) Former AVP Engineering, Swiggy. I write about work, progress and success.

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