The Psychological Safety Playbook by Karolin Helbig

Author:Karolin Helbig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karolin Helbig
Published: 2022-12-19T06:28:11+00:00

Respond Productively in a Nutshell

By labeling your emotions, you gain self-awareness and take back control of how to respond.

Watch Out for Your Blind Spots: “What Stories Am I Telling Myself?”

Why to Try It

The human brain is a storytelling machine. Give it few data points and it immediately comes up with a story. This process is fast and automatic because it relies on our intuitive thinking (“System 1” thinking, according to psychologist Daniel Kahneman). Our brain doesn’t have a sense for what is missing—it’s optimized for coherence, not correctness.

We need to become more aware of this feature of our brain because it creates biases and blind spots that we cannot eliminate, since they are the flip side of our brain’s fascinating capacity to deal with complexity and make decisions quickly. We can, however, raise our awareness of our biases and blind spots. Once we become more aware of them, we can see our brain’s stories for what they are—narratives based on limited data, not the truth. And we can develop a healthy suspicion of our brain’s favorite sport: jumping to conclusions.

Out of complex and incoherent data points, our brain quickly and eff ortlessly makes coherent stories . . .

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