What you'll learn

Identify confirmation bias and challenge your assumptions

Counter anchoring bias to negotiate with confidence

Understand survivorship bias and avoid misleading success stories

Spot selection bias and broaden your perspective

Decode the impact of linear bias on predictions and planning

Evaluate news and media with a critical lens

Enhance collaboration by recognizing team biases

Apply rational strategies to improve everyday decision-making

Why Learn About Cognitive Bias?

Because hidden biases shape your reality more than you likely realize...

Every day, cognitive shortcuts like confirmation bias and anchoring subtly influence how you think, decide, and act. But you don’t have to let them steer your choices.

This course is your guide to understanding the mental filters affecting your perspective, from how you consume news to how you handle negotiations. You’ll learn to spot common biases, understand their origins, and apply strategies to think critically and make better decisions.

Whether you're planning a career move, managing a team, or simply navigating daily life, these skills empower you to cut through flawed thinking and gain fresh clarity.

What Does This Course Cover?

In this byte-sized course you'll learn about the following:

Understanding Cognitive Biases Start by exploring what cognitive biases are, why they exist, and how they influence your daily decisions. Learn about their subtle yet powerful effects on your thoughts and actions.

Spotting Common Biases Deep dive into key biases like confirmation, anchoring, survivorship, selection, and linear bias. Recognize how each bias operates and identify when it’s affecting your judgment.

Real-World Applications Discover how these biases impact your interactions with media, professional negotiations, and strategic planning. Gain tools to challenge assumptions and make decisions with clarity and confidence.

Improving Critical Thinking Develop habits to think more rationally and ask better questions. Explore methods to approach problems with an open mind and weigh evidence fairly.

Enhancing Collaboration and Communication Learn how understanding biases can improve team dynamics. Navigate disagreements and group decisions with empathy and a clearer perspective.

Wait... What's a Byte?

Bytes are shorter courses that allow you to upgrade your skills and knowledge in a single day!

Learning is hard. And sometimes you just need a quick learning fix, right? To learn something awesome, interesting, and relevant to your career goals.

That's why we've created Bytes.

What Else Should I Know?

By becoming a ZTM member you'll not only get access to all our courses, bytes, and projects.

But you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you'll be learning from an industry professional (Diogo) that has actual real-world experience and knowledge. He teaches you the exact strategies and techniques he uses in his role.

Finally, as with all ZTM courses, this course is a living thing. It will be constantly updated as the landscape changes so you can use it as your go-to resource for learning how to maximize your thinking and avoid cognitive biases now and throughout your career.

Join 1,000s of Zero To Mastery graduates that have gotten hired and are now working at companies like Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.

They come from all different backgrounds, ages, and experiences. Many even started as complete beginners.

So there's no reason it can't be you too.

And you have nothing to lose. Because you can start learning right now and if this course isn't everything you expected, we'll refund you 100% within 30 days. No hassles and no questions asked.