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Congratulations ! You Salary is Up by 12.5%

Congratulations ! You Salary is Up by 12.5%

Recently you appeared for a job interview. After the interview, the HR Manager calls to offer you the job.
HR informs you the salary, and is 12.5% higher than your existing salary. The manager further informs you that in addition to salary this job has other benefits, which are generous too.
He does not have the time to meet up to discuss the terms right now. The HR Manager wants to know if you are going to accept this job offer.
As you really want this job, you can say yes now and meet him to discuss the details tomorrow. What do you tell him?
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The mistakes we make in our everyday life

• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective