Want to Communicate Effectively at Work? Eliminate These 5 Cognitive Distortions

In <a href="https://vinitabansal.medium.com/want-to-make-better-decisions-avoid-these-5-cognitive-distortions-6d35ef83b350" rel="noopener">part 1</a> on cognitive distortions, I wrote about the five cognitive distortions that impact your decision-making by impairing your ability to think clearly. In this article, I will cover five cognitive distortions that impact communication: <ol> <li>Heaven’s reward fallacy</li> <li>Curse of knowledge</li> <li>Fundamental attribution error</li> <li>Fallacy of change</li> <li>Bikeshedding</li> </ol> Let’s get started. <h1>Heaven’s Reward Fallacy</h1> We all expect to be praised for our hard work and effort. We all want to be appreciated, noticed, and rewarded. But a large part of the work we do often goes unnoticed. Always doing good to others does not always come around. Working hard, sacrificing, and exhausting ourselves with endless work does not make success more likely. Seeking external rewards and external approval only leads to disappointment with feelings of anger, <a href="https://www.techtello.com/frustration-at-work/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">frustration</a>, and resentment because reality often does not align with our expectations. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/want-to-communicate-effectively-at-work-eliminate-these-5-cognitive-distortions-679caa76cd2a">Learn More</a>