Outsmart Your Instincts

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Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast

In the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast, host Adam Hansen explores what’s going on—under the radar—with non-conscious instincts (aka Cognitive Biases) that trip up innovation, and points towards some effective ways around them. He talks to some of the best and brightest in the world of innovation to explore how Cognitive Biases affect our work, and how we can all learn a new way to think.

09/04/2018

Episode 06: Confirmation Bias

Innovation Process Facilitator Cynthia Ryan joins Adam Hansen on The Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast to discuss the Confirmation Bias. According to an MIT study, false information is 70% more likely to be shared on Twitter than true stories. One of the reasons? Confirmation Bias. Confirmation Bias definition: Confirmation Bias causes us to seek out and then interpret information based on our preexisting beliefs. Be sure to subscribe to stay-up-to-date on everything innovation and Cognitive Biases!

57 min
13/02/2018

Episode 05: Confabulation

Innovation Process Facilitator, Dina Pancoast, joins Adam Hansen on the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast as they discuss Confabulation. Tune in to hear how to best overcome Confabulation and generate better ideas with the Behavioral Innovation™ approach. Confabulation definition: Confabulation is when we make decisions intuitively and nonconsciously, and rationalize the decisions after the fact. Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

54 min
11/01/2018

Episode 04: Status Quo Bias

Ideas To Go Principal and Innovation Process Facilitator Christine Haskins joins Adam Hansen on the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast. Tune in to learn how to best overcome the Status Quo Bias and generate better ideas with the Behavioral Innovation™ approach. Status Quo Bias definition: this Bias makes us default to keeping things the same. When new opportunities arise, we would rather stay with what we have than switch to something new. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast!

60 min
20/11/2017

Episode 03: The Curse of Knowledge

Innovation Process Facilitator Greg Cobb joins host Adam Hansen on the Outsmart Your Instincts podcast as they discuss the Curse of Knowledge. This Bias is so ingrained in our minds that we even have to double check for it while recording the podcast! And here is the New York Times article about Crazy Ants that we reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

45 min
06/11/2017

Episode 02: Availability Bias

Beth Storz, President of Ideas To Go, joins colleague and co-author Adam Hansen on Episode 2 of the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast. Listen as they discuss examples of—and define—Availability Bias and provide techniques to overcoming it during innovation. Availability Bias: how our minds retrieve information from the most recent memories first. Along with the most recent events, emotionally charged memories are also easily retrieved. In other words, what’s available is what’s easy to recall.

56 min
19/10/2017

Episode 01: Negativity Bias

Ed Harrington, CEO of Ideas To Go, talks with his colleague and co-author, Adam Hansen, about how to spot, deal with, and even combat Negativity Bias. It’s not just about being kind when you hear a far-out idea. It’s also about being mindful. Negativity Bias refers to the brain giving more weight to negative events, even in the presence of equally important positive events. In this sense, bad is stronger than good. Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

45 min
19/10/2017

Podcast Introduction: Outsmart Your Instincts

Beth Storz, Ed Harrington, and Adam Hansen—co-authors of the book Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation™ Approach Drives Your Company Forward—discuss the evolution of Cognitive Biases and identify the 8 that impede innovation. Subscribe to stay up to date on everything innovation!

26 min

7 Episodes

In the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast, host Adam Hansen explores what’s going on—under the radar—with non-conscious instincts (aka Cognitive Biases) that trip up innovation, and points towards some effective ways around them. He talks to some of the best and brightest in the world of innovation to explore how Cognitive Biases affect our work, and how we can all learn a new way to think.

Creator

Adam Hansen
Years Active

2017 - 2018
Episodes

7
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Adam Hansen