Cognitive Biases Workbook | 25 Cognitive Biases | Decision Making Book | Critical Thinking | Sunk Cost Fallacy | Printable Workbook PDF

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"We would all like to think of ourselves as logical and rational — Spock-like, calm and reasonable. But behind the façade, what drives us is our beliefs and our biases."

That's how Harish opens 25 Cognitive Biases and How to Get Beyond Them — and it is the honest starting point of the whole book. Your mind takes shortcuts. Some of them serve you; many of them quietly diminish your happiness and the quality of your choices. This workbook names twenty-five of them — and for each one, shows you the way beyond it.

The book began as his six-part Launch Your Genius series on eighteen cognitive biases, gathered here into six chapters and completed as a workbook. For this expanded edition, Harish added seven new chapters — one bias each — on seven more traps that shape our decisions, our relationships and our plans: the sunk cost fallacy, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the fundamental attribution error, the halo effect, framing and loss aversion, the planning fallacy, and survivorship bias. Twenty-five biases, in thirteen chapters — and twenty-five ways to get beyond them.

Each chapter is complete in itself: the essay in his own words, the research and the everyday examples that make the bias real, five Questions to Consider, an Action Tips box, and a Try This Today exercise. Then — because insight fades without ink — every chapter closes with a Reflections page: three guided reflection points drawn from that chapter's own content, with ruled lines to write your answers. And at the end of the book, a Printable Workbook of nine worksheets turns spotting biases into a daily practice: a Bias Spotter log for catching them in the wild, a Decision Audit to run before any big decision, a four-week tracker for all twenty-five biases, and an action plan to work through them one by one.

Spot the hidden shortcuts your mind takes — and make clearer decisions, starting today.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• Introduction — why we are not as rational as we think, and how this workbook works
• 1. Confirmation, Hindsight and Negativity
• 2. Impact, False Consensus and Attention
• 3. Optimism, Distinction and Anchoring
• 4. Endowment, Functional Fixedness and Projection
• 5. Information, Consistency and Social Comparison
• 6. Availability, Pessimism and Clustering
• 7. The Sunk Cost Fallacy
• 8. The Dunning-Kruger Effect
• 9. The Fundamental Attribution Error
• 10. The Halo Effect
• 11. Framing and Loss Aversion
• 12. The Planning Fallacy
• 13. Survivorship Bias
• The Printable Workbook — nine worksheets (see below)
• A Final Word, About the Author, and an Also by Harish page

THE 25 BIASES
Confirmation Bias · Hindsight Bias · Negativity Bias · Impact Bias · False Consensus Bias · Attention Bias · Optimism Bias · Distinction Bias · Anchoring Bias · The Endowment Effect · Functional Fixedness · Projection Bias · Information Bias · Consistency Bias · Social Comparison Bias · Availability Heuristic · Pessimism Bias · Clustering Bias · The Sunk Cost Fallacy · The Dunning-Kruger Effect · Fundamental Attribution Error · The Halo Effect · Framing and Loss Aversion · The Planning Fallacy · Survivorship Bias

EVERY CHAPTER INCLUDES
• The chapter's essay, in the author's own words, with the research behind each bias
• Questions to Consider — five questions to turn the lens on your own thinking
• An Action Tips box — practical steps for getting beyond the bias
• A Try This Today exercise — one small, doable action
• A Reflections page — 3 guided reflection points with ruled writing lines (13 pages, 39 points in all)

THE PRINTABLE WORKBOOK (PRINT AND WRITE BY HAND)
• The Bias Spotter — a daily log for catching biases in the wild
• The Confirmation Bias Check — search for the evidence you would rather not see
• The Consider-the-Opposite Page — the antidote to "I knew it all along"
• Forecast vs. Reality — grade your own emotional forecasts
• The Letting-Go Review — for the things you cannot let go of
• The Sunk Cost Review — decide from today forward, not from what is already spent
• The Decision Audit — a checklist to run before any big decision, sunk-cost check included
• My Bias-Awareness Tracker — a four-week tracker for all 25 biases
• My 25 Biases Action Plan — your plan for working through every bias

THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF
• You keep funding a project, course or subscription mainly because of what it already cost you
• Your plans reliably take longer and cost more than you predicted
• You notice you mostly read, watch and remember what already agrees with you
• First impressions — of people, prices and ideas — steer you more than you would like
• You make decisions you later explain with "I knew it all along"
• You learn by doing and writing, not just reading

DETAILS
• Instant digital download (PDF) — 107 pages, A4, read on phone, tablet or computer, or print at home
• Launch price $2.99 (regular price $5.99) — while the shop launch sale runs
• Chapters 1–6 compiled from the author's Launch Your Genius series (2015); Chapters 7–13 written for this book
• Written by a real author — not a PLR bundle
• From the Launch Your Genius collection (launchyourgenius.com) — by the author of Unshakable Self-Esteem, 42 Ways To Be More Creative & Brilliant, Let Go of Limiting Beliefs, 8 Keys to Master Your Inner Game, Beyond Perfectionism, and Unshakable Confidence

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Harish is a molecular biologist and math tutor who has been writing about creativity, mindset, and the inner life at Launch Your Genius (launchyourgenius.com) since 2015. His essays — quote-led, reflective, and practical — explore how we can jettison limiting beliefs, trust our own minds, and build lives we feel good about from the inside out. When he is not writing, he shares short-form math tutorials at @inspirationalstem and macro photography at @inspirationalmacro.

PLEASE NOTE
This book is offered for personal growth and educational purposes only. It shares ideas, reflections, and exercises drawn from the author's own experience and writing, and it is not a substitute for medical, psychological, psychiatric, or other professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This is a digital product; no physical book will be shipped. Colors may vary slightly on printed copies. For personal use only — please don't redistribute or resell the file; send friends to this listing instead. Questions? Message me anytime — I read everything.