How Confirmation Bias Shapes the Way We Apply the Enneagram

Mario Sikora, María José Munita and Seth "Creek" Creekmore continue their mini-series on some of the topics that Mario and MJ will cover at the IEA Global Conference on critical thinking. In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, they talk about confirmation biases – how we look for ways to justify our existing beliefs – and why this one matters within the Enneagram. They also discuss anchoring bias which is the tendency to give disproportionate weight to our first hypothesis.

“We tend to see what confirms our beliefs and not see what doesn’t.” -María José [01:42]

“I see that in myself in the rushing to a conclusion. That’s when I fall mostly in the confirmation bias.” -Creek [08:25]

“We have to be careful about what ideas get stuck in our head and how they provide a filter for how we interpret everything related to that idea.” -Mario [11:01]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[00:38] What is confirmation bias

[05:03] Confirmation bias in instinctual biases

[06:39] Why this matters with the Enneagram

[09:01] Anchoring bias

[11:47] Ways of anchoring

[13:30] Outro

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