The Story of Us: How to Make Sense of the World with Mitch Weisburgh

Episode notes

Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode Mitch Weisburgh is the founder of Academic Business Advisors, a company that helps organizations create educational products that prepare kids for the future. Most of the time when I speak to Mitch it's as part of my futurist buddy group. We rarely spend time on titles - we are too busy talking ideas. Our conversations are far reaching, imaginative and often surprising. Mitch actually made my jaw drop during this episode - on the topic of challenging the status quo. I appreciate him precisely because he challenges my thinking. Key takeaways: Mindset is the way we see ourselves and the world, and it influences our behavior and outcomes. Sense making is the process of creating meaning from information and experience, and it involves being aware of our biases, assumptions, emotions, and perspectives. Sense making can help us overcome cognitive traps, such as confirmation bias, availability bias, anchoring bias, and framing effects, that can lead us to make poor decisions or judgments.