How To Get Your Own Way

About This Site

• Cognitive Biases, Fallacies, and Effects. Improve your understanding of how our minds take shortcuts to reach conclusions. Then, form strategies to get your own way or to defend yourself against those trying to get one over on you.
• Statistics. Develop a critical eye so you can spot when statistics are being manipulated by peddlers, politicians, or the press.
• Body Language. People's body movements can contradict or confirm what they are saying. Becoming more aware of what is going on around you will help you read people better and give you an edge in dealing with them.
• Buying and Selling. Learn strategies to improve sales or to win a bargain.
• Writing and Grammar. No one cares what you’ve got to say unless it affects or entertains them. Learn how to write for maximum effect.

Cognitive Biases

• Anchoring
• Attentional Bias
• Availability Bias (with COVID example)
• Better Than Average Bias
• Choice Supportive Bias
• Confirmation Bias (with COVID example)
• Contrast Bias
• Distinction Bias
• Good Looking People Bias
• Groupthink
• Hindsight Bias
• Impact Bias
• Mirror Imaging
• Moral Credential Bias
• Negativity Bias
• News Media Bias
• Omissions Bias
• Reactance Bias
• Self Serving Bias
• Status Quo Bias

Cognitive Effects

• Barnum Effect
• Broken Biscuit Effect
• Compromise Effect
• Dunning Kruger Effect
• Endowment Effect
• Halo Effect
• Hyperbolic Discounting Effect
• Isolation Effect
• Ostrich Effect
• Rhyme As Reason Effect

Cognitive Fallacies

• Ad Hominem Argument
• Appeal to Authority Fallacy
• Appeal to Flattery Fallacy
• Base Rate Fallacy (with COVID example)
• Gamblers' Fallacy
• Obfuscation Fallacy