Learning from a bad day

Recently my husband and I were at a birthday party for one of his coworkers. I didn't know a single person there, not even the birthday boy. My husband introduced me to the birthday boy and the honored guest introduced us both to everyone at the table. Suddenly, my husband remembered he left the birthday card in the car. He told me he would be right back and went to the car for the card. There I stood, alone, feeling very awkward and uncomfortable. I felt like all the e

What is a cognitive bias? It is a thinking error we make while processing, reasoning, evaluating, or remembering information that can affect our judgements and decisions. We all make them and we all have been guilty of holding onto some of them for various reasons. Cognitive biases are formed and held onto because we see other people doing or thinking along the same lines. We can also remember things in a better light than what they actually were or remember an event diffe

Recently I went to a new doctor's office. I sat in the waiting room for just a few minutes before hearing my name. I followed this nice person down a hall into a room filled with people. There was a large table with many people seated around it and the nice person who escorted me pointed at a chair for me. I sat down and looked around the table, it felt a little like what I believe a firing squad would feel like. All eyes were on me. After a few seconds, but what felt li