MENTAL FILTER BIAS

When a single characteristic takes up all the capacity for analysis. For example, when personal misunderstandings with a negotiator prevent a business alliance from being concluded, or when the difficulty of digitising the company postpones this goal sine die. In the private sphere, it can happen when an unfortunate hotel room ends up ruining the weekend.

How to combat it

"We have many personal and social filters, and we see reality through them. They are our prejudices, values, fears, learning, norms and so on. And to free ourselves from them we must deepen and relax them mentally. We must give ourselves space to explore options other than the usual ones and quarantine our beliefs in order to delve into other perspectives, an exercise for which it is recommended that other opinions be sought.