Cognition

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Systems Thinking perceives the relationships and structure of complex systems 38
Scouts frequently update their maps 27
Lateral thinking is range in action 20
Wicked problems are difficult or impossible to solve 19
Creating frames improves cognition 15
First Principles thinking allows you to see the obvious hiding in plain sight 15
Availability Heuristic overestimates likelihood of events 14
Fostering a discourse shapes behavior 14
Motivated reasoning is the soldier mindset 14
Planning fallacy confuses “best-guess” with “best-case” scenario 13
Confirmation Bias defends one's assumptions 12
Paradigm shifts create a new framework of thinking 12
Sunk Cost Fallacy avoids facing a loss 11
Ambiguity aversion favors the known over the unknown 10
It is impossible to teach a man what he thinks he already knows 10
Wicked learning environments prevent learning 10
Adjacent Possible is the edge of the future 9
Creating frames overcomes the adoption problem 9
Elastic Thinking is parallel and integrative 9
Listen to the Suck with Curiosity 9
Shifting paradigms requires macroscopic, integrative thinking 9
Superforecasting is the intersection of range and mindset 9
The price of knowledge is a change in lexicon 9
Think slow, act fast is the secret of success 9
Understanding the systemic structure is powerfully generative 9
Concept maps are graphical representations of mental models 8
Elastic Thinking can hold two contradictory ideas simultaneously 8
Lexicons constrain the range of possible belief 8
Near misses lead to taking unwise risks 8
Path dependence shapes what we do next 8
Reference-class forecasting overcomes the planning fallacy 8
Rough Consensus enables forward progress 8
Analogical thinking uses a known example to explain something new 7
Divergent ideas come from the right brain 7
Generative learning requires systemic thinking 7
Hanlon's razor avoids paranoia and ideology 7
Ideas are like leaves floating on collective thinking 7
Reference-class forecasting avoids uniqueness bias 7
Scientific thinking is understanding something before it is observed 7
Substitution answers an easier, similar question instead 7
The clarity of a map is not easily distinguished from its accuracy 7
Unchecked optimism leads to project failure 7
Anchoring Bias pulls an unknown value toward a known anchor 6
Concept Networks are the building blocks of thoughts processes 6
Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth 6
Fundamental Attribution Error blames others and exonerates me 6
Bias for action can mask a bias against thinking 5
Frightening and dangerous are two different things 5
Integrative, macroscopic thinking sees the forest and the trees 5
Metaphors form the basis of our ability to think 5
Organizations expand when prestige is correlated to budget size 5
People tend to adopt their own ideas 5
The map is not the territory 5
Tools both illuminate and limit our understanding 5
Writing clarifies thinking 5
Everything we think we know about the world is a model 4
Locking down of a problem leads to frozen thinking 4
Making good decisions in ambiguous scenarios requires elastic thinking 4
Occam's razor leads to first principles thinking 4
Strategic capability is required for thinking your way out of difficult positions 4
Intuition delivers overly extreme predictions 3
Trustworthy vs. Trusted 3
Post hoc ergo propter hoc 1
Typologies underscore the most characteristic elements of a type 1