Enhance your thinking and avoid cognitive traps: the 25 most relevant cognitive biases.
Cognitive biases have been plagued businesses and individuals for hundreds of years and led to famous misconceptions like "the world is flat". Whether we know it or not, our thinking is highly flawed, most of the time.
In order to become a clear thinker, one must first know the traps of faulty reasoning. This course allows you to critically assess your own thinking by teaching you the biggest 25 cognitive biases.
After taking this course, your reasoning and thinking will not be perfect but it will almost inevitably improve. Charly Munger and Warren Buffett have are famously known to have tried to avoid those 25 cognitive biases and called this ability a key reason for their success in investing.
Whether investing is what you set out to do or not, understanding the traps of your own - and other people's minds - will help you make better decisions in your professional and personal life.
Make smarter money, Sales skills, Interviewing, Body language
Stefan is an international dealmaker and sales expert. Before entering the dealmaker world, he has analysed the great businessmen of our times for over 10 years, sales trainers like Jordan Belfort, Brian Tracy and Grant Cardone, great investment gurus like Warren buffett or Charly Munger and the great entrepreneurs of our time like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. Sales has changed and Stefan applies what works from these approaches in the real world of the 21st century. Before joining as an instructor, Stefan has worked in a diverse set of industries as lobbyist, data scientist, salesman and coach in various countries so that he only teaches what is universally applicable in different countries, cultures and for different positions. He holds an LL.M from the French Sorbonne law school and speaks five languages.
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