Debates and design research require adequate data, most definitely, but what data we choose to present, and what we ignore, is up to us. And that is where the poison of the confirmation bias creeps in. It is worthwhile to remember that we often favour information that confirms a pre-conjured belief which we have high emotional investments in, and that we often ignore and try to actively stamp out information that contradicts us. This is wrong. This needs an antidote – all this and more in this episode, based on an excerpt from the Universal Principles of Design.

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You might feel you're a hardworking person who has achieved a lot owing to all the sacrifices you've done in life. A friend might see you as a lazy person, who gets really lucky when it comes to achievements. This isn't wrong to have. But, it's a mistake if you did not try to find out all perspectives of yourself. Only then could you understand your behavioural traits and ingrained tendencies. And this can be done with ease, with the help of the Uffe Elbæk model - based on an excerpt from the Decision Book by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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In video games, simplifying playability by making it clear who is being controlled and how to control them is perhaps the most important - and this is done often by making the names and controller icons move with the players - resulting in the viewers perceiving those otherwise separate entities as a group. Designing games isn't all fun and games after all. All this and more about the Principle of Common Fate in this episode, based on an excerpt from the Universal Principles of Design.

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From entrepreneurial infancy to the adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective - this gem of a book by Michael Gerber, claims to be the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. If you want to apply the lessons of franchising, to any business, this book is a must-read to help your business thrive in a productive and assured way.

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We need to make purchase decisions almost every day of our life - but they need not be nerve-wracking, no matter how big the purchase is. Establish a research strategy and stick to it, lower your expectations from the fancy purchase you're about to make, don't worry yourself to hypertension, and in the end, let somebody else decide for you. All this and more in this episode on how to buy pretty much anything, based on the Buyer's decision model, from an excerpt from the Decision Book by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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There is a very prominent and strong relationship between the perceived height of a ceiling, and cognition. Abstract thinking and creativity do not generally flourish in the same working environments as those that promote concrete, focused and detail-oriented thinking. From supermarkets to surgical operating rooms, everything aims to take advantage of this principle - the Cathedral Effect. All this and more in this episode, based on an excerpt from the Universal Principles of Design.

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Decision-making is not something to be taken lightly, especially at the initital stages of a process. Also, it is not something that only logic and rationale can decipher and process. The main idea is to sometimes switch off the rational side of the brain, and get in touch directly with a somewhat higher power - our intuition. After all, intuition is knowledge that we feel but cannot really put to words. All this and more in this episode, based on an excerpt from The Decision Book by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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The more people are exposed to a stimulus, the stronger their feeling associated with it. If the stimulus is neutral or a positive one, people tend to like it more and more. But, if it's jarring and negative, people start to dislike it exponentially over time. Advertising and marketing campaigns use the classical conditioning principle and the mere-exposure effect over and over to enhance their credibility, and improve people's perceptions about them - all this and more in this episode, based on an excerpt, from the Universal Principles of Design.

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Professional competence is not at all enough to be a good leader. Truly caring about those who have been entrusted to your care - is what it takes to become a good leader. And this way, if you put the interests of your people and your organisation, before your self-interests, you can never fail. After all, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."

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'The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.' This is the premise of SCAMPER - a very effective tool to reimagine how we can boost our creativity by simply having a structured path to follow. All this and more in this episode, based on an excerpt from The Decision Book by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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