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Overcoming Cognitive Bias

Overcoming Cognitive Bias

This course is part of Strategic Decision Making Specialization

Instructor: Madecraft

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

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4 hours to complete

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Identify 10 common cognitive biases that distort your thinking and decision-making at work and in everyday life.
Apply practical strategies to catch and counter bias before it affects your judgment.
Build a personal framework for making clearer, more rational, and more balanced decisions.

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Every day, your brain is quietly shaping your decisions in ways you don't see coming. This course gives you a clear-eyed look at 10 of the most common cognitive biases — from confirmation bias and hindsight bias to the bias blind spot — and equips you with practical, evidence-based strategies to catch and counter them in real time.

What makes this course different is its focus on application. You won't just learn what biases are — you'll practice recognizing them in realistic workplace scenarios, examine how they've already been showing up in your decisions, and walk away with concrete tools you can use immediately. Whether you're navigating a high-stakes negotiation, evaluating a colleague's performance, or simply trying to make better day-to-day calls, this course will sharpen your thinking and help you make decisions that are more rational, more balanced, and more effective. By the end, you'll have a personal framework for identifying bias before it derails your judgment — and the confidence to act on it.

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Your brain processes thousands of decisions every day, and without realizing it, cognitive biases are quietly shaping every one of them. In this module, you'll explore four of the most common biases that distort your thinking and walk away with practical tools to start catching them in real time.

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5 videos2 assignments1 discussion prompt

When you're faced with challenging information or high-stakes decisions, bias doesn't retreat — it doubles down. In this module, you'll apply three strategies to recognize how availability, backfire, and authority biases distort your judgment when the pressure is on.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

Even when you know bias exists, the hardest part is catching it in yourself. In this module, you'll build a practical framework for recognizing inattentional blindness, anchoring, and blind spot bias so you can make clearer, more confident decisions going forward.