Tricks Your Brain Plays to Make You Believe You're Smart

Tricks Your Brain Plays to Make You Believe You're Smart
blaming everyone else for your mistakes, cognitive biases shape the way you see the world—and most of the time, they get it hilariously wrong.
In this video, we’ll uncover the Top 10 cognitive biases that secretly control your life: Dunning-Kruger, confirmation bias, hindsight bias, and more. You’ll laugh, cringe, and maybe even catch yourself in the act the next time your brain tries to play its tricks.
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00:00 intro
00:02 10. The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Your Brain’s Overconfident Cheerleader
01:13 9. Confirmation Bias: Your Brain’s Yes-Man
02:18 8. The Illusion of Explanatory Depth: You Think You Get It, But You Don’t
03:26 7. The Availability Heuristic: Your Brain’s Lazy Google Search
04:24 6. The Anchoring Effect: Your Brain’s Bargain-Hunter Mentality
05:29 5. The Spotlight Effect: Your Brain’s Reality Show Delusion
06:26 4. The Hindsight Bias: Your Brain’s “I Knew It All Along” Smirk
07:33 3. The Overconfidence Bias: Your Brain’s Hype Man
08:40 2. The Self-Serving Bias: Your Brain’s Personal PR Agent
09:48 1. The Fundamental Attribution Error: Your Brain’s Judgmental Soapbox