Bad Decisions Start with Bad Perception
Most failures in judgment don’t begin with bad decisions.
They begin with distorted perception.
Before we talk about awareness, decision-making, or action, we have to talk about what’s happening before all of that — what we notice, what we...
We like to think we see the world clearly, like we are noticing what is really happening. But a lot of the time our minds are quietly shaping what we notice and what we ignore....
Your brain does not just see the world.
It edits it.
Sometimes those edits turn into full blown illusions.
See my article on how bias snowballs change perception and why that matters for situational awareness....