STEVE HAFFNER

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy was grappling with how to respond to Russia’s deployment of nuclear weapons in...

Golfing for Dollars Golf is one of the few sports where the lowest score wins. It would make sense that golfers should try just as hard...

Don't be fooled into seeing disillusionment as something to be avoided.

Elevating how well you recognize and mitigate your mind's illusions is essential to your overall performance.

When you check your bags at the airport, the airline doesn’t just take your bag and put it on the plane. First they have to put a tag on...

How the WYSIATI impulse keeps you in the dark.

The dog not barking is a form of deductive reasoning that can help you separate fact from fiction.

Judging decision quality based solely on the outcome can lead to poor decision making in the future.

How to set tripwires and checkpoints to monitor progress and help you navigate problems successfully.

Framing a problem as unsolvable can cause you to abdicate responsibility. Mitigating is a better approach.

Self-labelling undermines your performance and can cause others to make negative assumptions.

Assumptions carry false certainty and failure to recognize them thwarts effective problem solving.

The bikeshedding phenomenon - when smaller, trivial topics get more attention than bigger, more impactful issues.

Having a Plan B is a great idea, but think of it as a last resort, not an excuse to give up on Plan A.

Don't get trapped in a cycle of continually learning without acting on that knowledge to reach your goals.

We're all susceptible to status quo bias. Recognize it and reduce its impact on your performance.

Knowing and understanding your audience is key to making your message resonate.

How to succeed when attention spans are decreasing.

Accurate problem definition is the key to effective problem solving

We’re all just a bunch of fools. It’s not an insult, it just means that our brains are configured in a way that makes us easy to deceive....

2022 can still be a great year for you - if you use it as a teacher to propel you for more success in 2023.

How to tell when supporting an idea reaches cult status.

It's time to re-think how we feel about becoming disillusioned.

A list of amazing thought leaders currently sharing their insightful work with the world.

Learn how thought experiments can elevate your problem solving and decision making .

Decision making should be a thoughtful, defined process. Using a decision matrix can help you produce better decisions.

Misplaced loyalties can be costly. Re-examine yours to determine which ones do and do not serve you.

Fear, assumptions, urgency and expectations can create false impulses that can hamper your performance.

The drive for certainty is as strong as our drives for food and sex.

Results are evaluated on how they compare to expectations. See how defying expectations can be magical.

Trust is vital to all of your relationships, and making a personal connection is a great way to reduce mistrust.

We hear a lot about confirmation bias but it keeps getting worse. Here's why and how to reduce yours.

Inspiration for when you feel your best years are behind you and you missed your chance at greatness.

Turn new knowledge into self-improvement by scheduling an action plan.

What do you think of Will Smith? Few people know much about him personally but after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, many people...

Projecting your current self onto the future you is a recipe for poor decision making. Learn how to overcome it.

Why is one of the most effective learning techniques so underutilized? Use spaced learning to improve your performance.

Tracking your progress makes you twice as likely to achieve your goal. Don't ignore this crucial component.

How and what you write reflects on you. Implement a few simple tips and make a big improvement to your writing.

Quitting (job, relationship, career, business) is tough and has a negative stigma. When is it the best option?

Nobody’s perfect. We all have habits we’d like to break and new ones we want to start - basically behaviors that if we change them we...

Your decision making is undermined by misunderstanding small numbers . It's time to re-think and elevate your decision performance.

Improve your odds of success with your New Years resolutions with the Three Decembers Method.

You snooze - you lose. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Give a hoot - don’t pollute I before E except after C Humans have a thing...

After 5 years of learning about thinking and decision making, here are the most impactful insights I've gained.

A major cause of both regret and distrust and we our actions do not align with our values. How can we narrow the gap?

Moonshots are great and can take you far, as long as you are clear-eyed about the probabilities of success and failure.

We all have limits and constraints, but only some are real. How do you know which are illusionary?

What can we learn from astrology and its effect on human decision making?

How the "leave it alone if it still works" mindset may be hampering your ability to innovate.