Bias
Availability Bias
What comes easily to mind can feel more common than it really is.
In everyday lifeAfter seeing news about a plane accident, flying suddenly feels more dangerous than driving.
Is it likely—or simply memorable?
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The Conscious Thinker Framework presents
Your mind is a
marvellous editor.
It helps you make sense of reality.
It also quietly leaves things out.
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One little trick of the mind
Confirmation
Bias
We naturally notice what agrees with us—and overlook what does not.
What I
already believe
already believe
01That confirms it.
02I knew it.
03But what about this?
04There may be another explanation.
05The evidence is mixed.
06This part does not fit.
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For exampleYou read six opinions and remember only the two that agree with you.
What might your mind have quietly hidden?
A number arrives first
Anchoring
Bias
The first number we encounter can quietly pull later judgments toward it.
For exampleA coat marked “was $400” makes $180 feel inexpensive—even before you ask what it is worth.
WAS$400$180
What is it worth?
The first number whispers…
Notice how $400 stays in the room—even after it is crossed out.
When two choices pretend to be everything
The False
Dilemma
Sometimes an argument gives us only two doors when more possibilities exist.
EitherPerfect
OrFailure
For example“Either I succeed immediately, or I am not talented.”
Past effort pulls on the present
Sunk Cost
Fallacy
We continue because we have already invested—not because continuing is still worthwhile.
For exampleYou finish a film you dislike because you already watched ninety minutes.
90 minutes
already spent
already spent
Now
A paradox of identity
The Ship of
Theseus
If every part of something is gradually replaced, is it still the same thing?
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The original ship.
Metacognition begins here
Thinking about
your thinking.
Biases, fallacies and paradoxes are not proof that the mind is broken. They are invitations to notice how it works.
What am I assuming?What am I missing?What could change my mind?
The Cabinet of Distortions
Twelve more ways
the mind can bend.
Choose a curiosity. The cabinet will transform.
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Specimen 01 · Bias✦ · ✧
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A glimpse of CTF
The goal is not to distrust your mind.
It is to know when to pause, become curious, and look once more.
The Conscious Thinker Framework is a practice of noticing how we know, why we believe, and when to reconsider.
CTFThe Conscious Thinker Framework
Conceived and created by Omar Bennani