Mind power⚡️

​Weird Mind Tricks Your Brain Plays On You The framing, context & delivery of new ideas affect us a lot more than we may realize. The entire advertising industry is based on this trick our brain plays on us as our mind is highly receptive to subtle cues in verbal & body language. The Framing Effect is the phenomenon where our decisions and choices are affected by how they get framed by language, settings, and circumstances. It is a cognitive bias where we choose options depending on how the options are presented, with negative or positive connotations. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​Weird Mind Tricks Your Brain Plays On You This is another one of the most common mind tricks that we fall victim to. It is a cognitive bias where an individual unintentionally assumes that all other people they communicate with possess the background knowledge about the topic they are discussing necessary to properly understand their message. The curse of knowledge refers to the belief that because you know something, you assume others understand it too. It is when we fail to realize that other people may not know what we already know. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​Weird Mind Tricks Your Brain Plays On You This is one of the most common mind tricks that most of us experience. According to this concept, the more knowledge we have about a particular topic, the less confident we feel about what we know about it. The more you know, the more you underestimate your abilities. Conversely, people who have little understanding of something, generally overestimate their capability and understanding. Developed by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the Dunning-Kruger effect is when people who have little understanding of something, generally overestimate their capability and understanding. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​Weird Mind Tricks Your Brain Plays On You How we judge someone depends on how intensely we like or feel attracted to that person. As human beings, we judge others as a natural instinct. However, this judgment often depends on how well we get along with that person. Halo effect is when our general impression of someone determines how we think and feel about their behavior, actions, and character. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​Weird Mind Tricks Your Brain Plays On You It is because we want the world to be fair, we tend to believe that it is. We presume that good things happen to good people and bad people get what they deserve. We believe that hard work pays off in the end. However, it is not necessarily the truth. Just world hypothesis makes us want to believe that the world is just and fair and we get what we deserve. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​Weird Mind Tricks Your Brain Plays On You We tend to overestimate our belief that others usually observe and notice how we appear, behave and act in public. However, in reality, most people are preoccupied with their own things and focus on their own issues and agendas rather than on others. The spotlight effect makes us falsely believe that people notice us more than they do in reality. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​We tend to seek ways to validate & justify our previously held beliefs by accepting ideas that support our ideals, avoiding anything contradictory in the process. Confirmation bias makes us support and prefer information that confirms our currently existing biases and beliefs. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​Most of us tend to remember our past as more pleasing than it actually was. Moreover, we expect our future to be riddled with problems and be much worse than it probably will be. Our mind tricks us into believing that the past was better than it was in reality. Rosy retrospection is a psychological phenomenon of individuals judging their past improperly and falsely believing them to be more positive than their current situation. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​We judge people based on their personality and character, while we judge our own selves based on the circumstances. Fundamental attribution error posits that we instantly judge others when they do something wrong and blame it on their poor character and flawed personality. However, we tend to forgive ourselves a lot easier when we do something wrong or act poorly as we believe we were in a tough situation. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️

​We unreasonably hold on to things, people and relationships because we have already invested something in it, whether it’s money, time, effort or emotional strain. According to a 2018 study on sunk cost fallacy, when we pursue “an inferior alternative merely because we have previously invested significant, but nonrecoverable, resources in it” then it leads to an evident violation of logical decision making. As we are unable to let go of these things, we desperately cling on to them which compels us to make irrational commitments and decisions regarding useless relationships and objects. Your mind is the greatest POWER ⚡️