Thinking Traps

There are many factors that can make decision-making difficult.

• Instinct: can work against us when confronted with new or unusual problems.
• Intuition: 
• Emotion: can inhibit some effective options.
• Memory: can inhibit expansive option-generation.
• Assumptions:
• Trust error:
• Overconfidence:
• Unconfidence: 
• Busy:
• Not urgent: 
• Underestimating change: tendency to assume that system structure remains the same such that its behaviour remains similar.
• Risk factor misjudgement: 
• Resistance to change: 
• Familiarity bias:
• Confirmation bias: 
• Demoralising: doubt that any adequate solution can be identified or implemented.
• Insignificance: disincentive to take action because it wouldn't be effective in isolation.
• No good options: all options have unpalatable side-effects.
• Reductionism: 
• Narrow Solutions: 
• Do nothing: 
• Do anything: 

To Do

• ‘traps’ is too negative: rename. Align with 'problem-factors'? 'Thinking challenges'?