Open exploration: which biases are you most likely to fall for?

A cognitive bias is a systematic, repeatable way human judgment departs from what the evidence supports — the mind failing in patterns, not at random. Noticing and revising those patterns in your own thought is the core move of cognitive behavioral therapy, the most consistently effective form of psychotherapy we have — which makes bias-spotting less a party trick and more a century-tested practice of thinking about your thinking.

  1. Ask. In a fresh conversation, give Claude honest context about how you work and decide, then: Given what I've told you about myself, what are the top 3 cognitive biases I might be most likely to fall for? For each: a concrete moment in my week where it would bite.
  2. Pick one. The one that stung a little. Examine it: Where did it show up this week? What would past-you have said in the moment?
  3. Audit it. The twist — this course never hands you a catechism: Now be my skeptic. Is this bias actually well-supported? What's the strongest replication evidence for it — and against it? Has its popular version survived the replication crisis? Some famous ones held up (anchoring, framing); some popular tellings are largely statistical artifacts. Which kind is yours?
Keep the receipts. One claim about your bias you now trust more, one you trust less, and the citation Claude gave you for each — we'll want them. The model is a good drafter and a poor authority here; making it show provenance is the exercise inside the exercise.