Mario Sikora Awareness to Action International

ANTIDOTES AND GUARDRAILS: Protecting Ourselves Against Our Built-In Biases

by Awareness to Action | Aug 24, 2021 | Article, Blog, Clear Thinking, Mario Sikora

By Mario Sikora An ongoing series of articles on clear-thinking skills, excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking” by Mario Sikora (available at http://www.awarenesstoactionbooks.com). In the last few articles we...

Other Obstacles to Our Thinking (Part 2)

by Awareness to Action | Aug 17, 2021 | Article, Blog, Clear Thinking, Mario Sikora

By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. These articles are excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. Here we continue with some...

Other Obstacles to Our Thinking

by Awareness to Action | Aug 17, 2021 | Article, Blog, Clear Thinking, Mario Sikora

By Mario Sikora Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. These articles are excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. In addition to the cognitive...

What Did You Do with the Wings? (or, Why Does Getting Rid of the Wings Make the Enneagram More Accurate AND Easier to Use?)

by Awareness to Action | Aug 10, 2021 | Article, Blog, Mario Sikora, The Enneagram

By Mario Sikora It’s a question we get all the time: Why don’t you teach the wings? The answer is that, by eliminating the wings, the Enneagram becomes both simpler and more accurate. Let me explain why. Among many who use the Enneagram,...

Common Cognitive Biases

by Awareness to Action | Aug 9, 2021 | Article, Blog, Clear Thinking, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora

Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. This articles excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. To really understand the challenges of our built...

Built-in Biases, Continued: Two Systems of the Brain, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Confirmation Bias

by Awareness to Action | Aug 4, 2021 | Article, Blog, Clear Thinking, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora

Part of an ongoing series on Clear-Thinking Skills. These articles excerpted from “How to Think Well, and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking,” which is available in paperback and e-book via amazon.com. Two Systems of the Brain Daniel Kahneman’s book...