Behavioral notes

Cognitive principles and mental models

Understand essential mental frameworks and cognitive patterns designed to improve everyday decision-making.

Core Concepts

Observed patterns in daily life

Bias

Confirmation bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information in a way that confirms preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

Heuristic

Availability heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic.

Model

First principles thinking

Boiling a problem down to its fundamental truths and reasoning up from there, rather than reasoning by analogy.

Application

Applying mental models to choices

When facing complex decisions, relying on structured cognitive frameworks helps strip away emotional noise and extraneous variables. By separating facts from assumptions, you arrive at clearer, more sustainable resolutions.

This collection of notes serves as a quick reference when navigating daily personal or professional challenges.