You know the names and still fall for them
Confirmation bias is familiar in theory and invisible in your own thinking.
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Catch your own mental shortcuts before they decide for you.
A course on the biases that distort everyday judgement, taught through decisions you actually make. It covers how these shortcuts work, where they show up in your week, and how to check a first impression before acting on it.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I want to recognize the mental shortcuts that distort my judgment. Use everyday decisions to teach me how biases work and how to check my first impression.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Decision-making
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- Where do you most want sharper judgement: at work, with money, or in reading people?
- Do you know some of the biases already, or is this new ground?
- Is there a recent decision you suspect a bias got the better of?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
Your first impression usually wins
You form a view fast and spend the rest of the time defending it.
You want to think more clearly, practically
Not a psychology lecture, but a way to catch yourself in the moment.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06Why we have shortcuts
What biases are for, why they usually work, and where they predictably fail.
The everyday five
Anchoring, confirmation, availability, sunk cost and overconfidence, each in a situation from your week.
Seeing them in yourself
Why biases are easy to spot in others and hard in the mirror, and what helps.
Checking a first impression
Questions that slow a judgement down just enough to test it.
Decisions designed for a biased mind
Defaults, pre-commitments and outside views that catch errors before they cost.
Your bias log
Noticing patterns over a few weeks and choosing the one worth working on.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Recognise the common shortcuts in your own thinking
Anchoring, confirmation, availability and the rest, spotted in your decisions rather than in examples.
Check a first impression
Use a few fast questions before acting on a snap judgement.
Design around your weak spots
Set up decisions so your predictable errors are harder to make.
Ideas this course corrects
Knowing about biases protects you from them
Awareness helps little on its own. Checking habits and decision design do the work.
Smart people are less biased
Intelligence often makes people better at rationalising the shortcut they already took.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course on the biases that distort everyday judgement, taught through decisions you actually make. It covers how these shortcuts work, where they show up in your week, and how to check a first impression before acting on it. It sits under Decision-making in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I want to recognize the mental shortcuts that distort my judgment. Use everyday decisions to teach me how biases work and how to check my first impression.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.