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Learning to Think [Cognitive Bias]

Discover how cognitive biases like confirmation, anchoring, and survivorship shape your decisions. This course equips you with tools to think critically, make smarter choices, and gain clarity for success in life and work.

2 Days

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Diogo Resende
Last updated: December 2024

Rated 4.8 out of 5 on Trustpilot

Overview

Do invisible mental shortcuts shape your decisions? Yes, much more than you likely know! This course helps you uncover common biases so you can make more rational decisions, enhance critical thinking skills, and improve your professional interactions.

What you'll learn

  • Identify confirmation bias and challenge your assumptions
  • Counter anchoring bias to negotiate with confidence
  • Understand survivorship bias and avoid misleading success stories
  • Spot selection bias and broaden your perspective
  • Decode the impact of linear bias on predictions and planning
  • Evaluate news and media with a critical lens
  • Enhance collaboration by recognizing team biases
  • Apply rational strategies to improve everyday decision-making

Why Learn About Cognitive Bias?

Because hidden biases shape your reality more than you likely realize...

Every day, cognitive shortcuts like confirmation bias and anchoring subtly influence how you think, decide, and act. But you don’t have to let them steer your choices.

This course is your guide to understanding the mental filters affecting your perspective, from how you consume news to how you handle negotiations. You’ll learn to spot common biases, understand their origins, and apply strategies to think critically and make better decisions.

Whether you're planning a career move, managing a team, or simply navigating daily life, these skills empower you to cut through flawed thinking and gain fresh clarity.

What Does This Course Cover?

In this byte-sized course you'll learn about the following:

Understanding Cognitive Biases
Start by exploring what cognitive biases are, why they exist, and how they influence your daily decisions. Learn about their subtle yet powerful effects on your thoughts and actions.

Spotting Common Biases
Deep dive into key biases like confirmation, anchoring, survivorship, selection, and linear bias. Recognize how each bias operates and identify when it’s affecting your judgment.

Real-World Applications
Discover how these biases impact your interactions with media, professional negotiations, and strategic planning. Gain tools to challenge assumptions and make decisions with clarity and confidence.

Improving Critical Thinking
Develop habits to think more rationally and ask better questions. Explore methods to approach problems with an open mind and weigh evidence fairly.

Enhancing Collaboration and Communication
Learn how understanding biases can improve team dynamics. Navigate disagreements and group decisions with empathy and a clearer perspective.

Wait... What's a Byte?

Bytes are shorter courses that allow you to upgrade your skills and knowledge in a single day!

Learning is hard. And sometimes you just need a quick learning fix, right? To learn something awesome, interesting, and relevant to your career goals.

That's why we've created Bytes.

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By becoming a ZTM member you'll not only get access to all our courses, bytes, and projects.

But you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you'll be learning from an industry professional (Diogo) that has actual real-world experience and knowledge. He teaches you the exact strategies and techniques he uses in his role.

Finally, as with all ZTM courses, this course is a living thing. It will be constantly updated as the landscape changes so you can use it as your go-to resource for learning how to maximize your thinking and avoid cognitive biases now and throughout your career.

Join 1,000s of Zero To Mastery graduates that have gotten hired and are now working at companies like Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.

They come from all different backgrounds, ages, and experiences. Many even started as complete beginners.

So there's no reason it can't be you too.

And you have nothing to lose. Because you can start learning right now and if this course isn't everything you expected, we'll refund you 100% within 30 days. No hassles and no questions asked.

When's the best time to get started? Today!

There's never a bad time to learn in-demand skills. But the sooner, the better. So start learning how to maximize your thinking today by joining the ZTM Academy. You'll have a clear roadmap to developing the skills to build your own projects, get hired, and advance your career.

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Course curriculum

Here's an overview of what you learn in this course.

Introduction

2 lectures

How We Think

11 lectures

Where To Go From Here?

1 lectures

Meet your instructor

Your instructor (Diogo) isn't just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He has been in your shoes. He makes learning fun. He makes complex topics feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you succeed.

Diogo Resende

Hi, I'm Diogo Resende!

Diogo has been working for over a decade as a data scientist. He loves harnessing the power of data and analytics to understand what has happened, what will happen next, and how to use that information to your advantage.

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Diogo Resende

Data Scientist

Frequently asked questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • There are no prerequisites for this course - all you need is a desire to learn!

Do you provide a certificate of completion?

We definitely do and they are quite nice. You will also be able to add Zero To Mastery Academy to the education section of your LinkedIn profile as well.

Are there subtitles?

Yes! We have high quality subtitles in 11 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Romanian, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, and Japanese.

You can even adjust the text size, color, background and more so that the subtitles are perfect just for you!

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