The "What You See Is All There Is" Bias & Your Career

In Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking Fast and Slow, he illustrates an idea we are all too familiar with – but one we ignore far too often.

The first part of Kahneman’s work focuses on the wide array of intuitional biases we possess as a side-effect of how our brains work. These include items such as the Halo Effect, Priming Effect, and the Law of Small Numbers.

The one I want to focus on in this article is as imperceptible as any named effect. It causes us to jump to...