What Is Cognitive Bias? - Why Your Brain Feels Right Even When It’s Wrong | #24
You’ve felt certain about a decision… and still been wrong.
Your brain is designed to give you quick answers.
It fills in gaps, makes assumptions, and moves on. Most of the time, that works.
Sometimes, it leads you in the wrong direction—while still feeling completely right.
In this episode of the Full Mental Bracket Podcast, Brent A. Diggs and Camille Diggs break down what cognitive bias is, why it exists, and how it shapes the way you interpret information, make decisions, and understand the world.
Cognitive bias isn’t a flaw—it’s a built-in feature of how your mind works.
The challenge is learning when to trust it… and when to slow down. This episode explores:
- Why your brain prioritizes speed over accuracy
- The difference between fast thinking and deliberate thinking
- How the “curse of knowledge” distorts communication
- Why confidence often feels like correctness
- How time pressure leads to predictable decision errors
- What it looks like to think more clearly in real situations
This connects to the Narrative Ownership framework: how you interpret events shapes your response—and repeated responses shape the direction your life takes over time.
Your brain isn’t flawed; it’s working exactly as designed.
If you want to make better decisions, avoid repeated mistakes, and think more clearly under pressure, this episode gives you a practical way to recognize bias and respond more deliberately.
Chapters
00:00 — Why your brain gives quick answers
01:31 — What cognitive bias is
02:56 — Why bias is built into the brain
04:22 — System 1 vs System 2 thinking
05:12 — The curse of knowledge
10:17 — The tapping experiment
14:58 — Why your brain uses shortcuts
18:55 — Can you fix cognitive bias?
20:14 — How to think more clearly
24:26 — How bias shapes your decisions
26:49 — Final takeaways
About the Podcast
Full Mental Bracket explores psychology, storytelling, and personal growth—focusing on how interpretation shapes action, and how repeated actions shape the direction of your life.
