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How Social Proof Dominates Your Life

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Cognitive Bias 15 out of 25: Social-Proof Tendency Humans are constantly having cognitive biases affect the way decisions are made. These biases cause people’s brains to distort reality, impair judgment, and cause impulse decisions. The social proof tendency is one of the most popular because of the absolute stranglehold it has on our lives. Psychologically, humans have a follow the leader mentality where action is typically taken when other people act or when they know it’s a safe decision. In the same sense, inaction will occur when other people are refusing to act. Even in times of emergency. This phenomenon is better known as social proof. This cognitive bias relies heavily on trust. Humans are fairly skeptical in general. However, we’re less skeptical towards friends, family, acquaintances, and influencers. This happens because the trust is already established. We know that people we trust aren’t likely to take advantage of us or steer us wrong. This causes fear and doubt ...

The Number One Lesson I Learned From Haters

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There are some valuable lessons that you can learn from haters. More times than not these lessons are learned the hard way. Haters drag people down way too often. Some know they’re doing it. The unfortunate thing is others don’t necessarily think they’re hating. Instead their “being real” or “being a realist.” Whether a hater is oblivious or not, there’s no worse feeling than when your closest friends and family are your haters. In this post, you’ll learn the number one thing that haters taught me that no self help book or business guru can prepare you for. This phenomenon of haters happens because humans are like crabs in a bucket . Haters attempt to pull down anyone going against the norm. It’s sad but happens all the time.I’m not talking about when haters are roasting, playing pranks, or smack talking. These are harmless and what make your closest relationships so great… but have a tendency to go horribly wrong at times. Horribly wrong is alright when it doesn’t happ...