Innovation Process Facilitator Cynthia Ryan joins Adam Hansen on The Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast to discuss the Confirmation Bias. Take this for example: According to an MIT study, false information is 70% more likely to be shared on Twitter than true stories. One of the reasons? Confirmation Bias. Tune in to hear how to best surmount this Bias and become a better innovator.  Confirmation Bias definition: Confirmation Bias causes us to seek out and then interpret information based on our preexisting beliefs. Be sure to subscribe to stay-up-to-date on everything innovation and Cognitive Biases!

In the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast, host Adam Hansen explores what’s going on—under the radar—with non-conscious instincts (aka Cognitive Biases) that trip up innovation, and points towards some effective ways around them. He talks to some of the best and brightest in the world of innovation to explore how Cognitive Biases affect our work, and how we can all learn a new way to think.