4 Brain Hacks to Improve Your Odds of Success
New brain research reveals pretty much all of us are terrible planners. But there’s hope. Learn four smart ways to shut down a cognitive bias called “the planning fallacy”.
The Brain Bias that Causes Us to Trust the Wrong People
Why are we so quick to trust some people we hardly know? Part of the problem is a crafty cognitive bias called the “halo effect.”
Four Brain Science Insights to Help Groups Make Smarter Decisions
Why do large groups tend to make such terrible decisions? Learn four tactics to help groups make smarter choices.
The Most Important Thing Missing from Most Retirement Plans
New research on the biggest mistakes most of us make when saving for retirement.
How the “Beauty Bias” Costs You Money
We have ageism, sexism, racism, and a host of other “isms.” Now learn about one of your brain’s most powerful discriminations…the beauty bias.
How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Invest
Has the pandemic rollercoaster ride made us more or less responsible with money? The latest research on the new ways we’re spending and saving.
Two Key Traits of Companies That Thrive During Troubled Times
Some companies weather a crisis and others go belly up. Learn the two key characteristics of companies that thrive during troubled times.
The misguided reasons your brain doesn’t fear the biggest dangers
Surprisingly, the things we fear most are NOT the things that usually kill us. Learn the surprising reasons your brain is afraid of the wrong things.
How Financial Storytelling Can Motivate Us to Save More
How can financial storytelling motivate us to save more? Economics speaker Graeme Newell shows you the power of storytelling and how it can both motivate us and also lead us astray
The Brain Science Bias That Tricks Us To Pay Too Much
Learn how a cognitive bias called “anchoring” dramatically alters our perception of value and can cause us to overpay.
The Weird Reason Your Brain Sticks with a Losing Choice
Why do we stick with a losing choice? Learn about the cognitive bias that motivates us to be loyal, but blinds us to our own bad choices.
Which Purchases Make Our Brain Most Happy?
Why do so many expensive purchases end up disappointing us? New brain science is revealing the types of purchases that give us the most long-term happiness.
When Are We Most Vulnerable to Bad Money Choices?
Why do we make so many bad choices? Human evolution didn’t optimize our brain to solve modern problems, it optimized for basic survival. Learn the specific situations when your caveman brain is most likely to make a bad choice.
Expensive Wedding or Cheap Wedding? Which is Best?
How much should spend on a wedding? New research reveals the best amount to spend.
Use Brain Science to Make Saving Easier
Learn how to use the cognitive bias called “temporal discounting” to save more…painlessly.
What IKEA Can Teach You About Investing
Learn about the cognitive bias that’s the secret to IKEA’s huge success.
Why So Many Entrepreneurs are Lousy Investors
Learn how overconfidence bias keeps business owners & entrepreneurs out of the market.
How Brain Science & Emotion Make Us Buy
Learn new ways marketers are using emotion and brain science to trigger buying decisions.
Why We Make Foolish Money Choices
Learn how “availability bias” tricks us into making impetuous money choices.
What size house is the best investment?/strong>
New research on the best house to buy to deliver maximum happiness. The decision involves so much more than just location, size and price.
What is behavioral finance?
The latest brain science insights on how to make smarter financial decisions.
Recognizing Money-Losing Biases
Learn the specific situations when we’re most vulnerable to making money-losing choices.
The Wisdom of Pessimism
There’s a thin line between being optimistic and being realistic.
How Our Brain Makes Money Decisions
Learn the strange and wonderful way our very flawed human brain makes money decisions.
Make More Winning Choices
How can you make more winning choices in your life? Learn now a cognitive bias called “the IKEA effect” can distort our judgment and trick us into bad decisions.
What are the Smartest Things to Buy?
Which purchases give us the maximum happiness for the buck? Click the video link to watch the video. You’ll learn about the specific purchases researchers say bring us the most joy.
Weird Ways Your Brain Makes Money Choices
Time for a fun tour of your brain! Learn the weird way our very flawed human brain makes money decisions. Find out how to recognize the signs your choices may be based on irrational thinking.
The Biggest Money Losing Mistake
New brain science insights are revealing the strange and freaky ways our very flawed human brain makes money decisions. Click on the link in the description to learn the #1 mistake we’re most likely to make when investing our hard-earned money.
Why We Don’t Prepare
AIDs. Zika. Ebola. SARS. We’ve had wave after wave of virus attacks for generations. So why was the world caught so unprepared for the pandemic? Learn how a cognitive bias called the “recency effect” blinds us to future dangers.
Don’t Fall for These Pricing Tricks
Every notice how most prices tend to end in 9s? Well now there’s a brand new way retailers are using pricing with 9s to get us to pay even more. Click to watch the video on the brain science of pricing.
How to Avoid Overconfidence
New cognitive brain research is revealing the specific situations when we’re most likely to get overconfident. Learn to recognize the signs and how to keep your own ego from getting out of control.
What is ‘Illusory Correlation” Bias?
Our brains are super-efficient prediction machines but this tends to make us see patterns that don’t actually exist. Learn how a cognitive bias called “illusory correlation bias” can lead to bad choices.
What is “Gambler’s Fallacy” Bias?
Our very flawed human brain primarily uses pattern recognition to predict the future. Decision science researcher Graeme Newell show how a cognitive bias called the “gambler’s fallacy” can lead to bad choices.
What is “Survivorship” Bias?
Bad choices often come from taking advice and guidance from misguided people. Decision science researcher Graeme Newell shows you how a cognitive bias called “survivorship bias” can compel us to trust the advice of the wrong people.
How much risk do you tolerate in your life?
More risk, means more potential gain, but also bigger losses. Learn how your brain calculates risk and how to avoid being overly cautious.
Are You Too Risky or Too Safe?
Tumultuous times like these tend to morph our risk behavior, either taking more risks or being overly cautious. Behavioral science researcher Graeme Newell shows how our brain makes important decisions when we experience risk.
What is the “Availability Heuristic?”
The “Availability Heuristic” is our brain’s pesky tendency to overvalue things we can easily remember. Learn how this sneaky cognitive bias skews our decision-making process.
How Brain Scientists Helped Win WW2?
Graeme Newell tells the remarkable story of how a young professor’s discovery drastically cut down on fatalities in the bombing raids over the perilous skies of Germany.
Who is the Best Mentor for You?
Picking a mentor to guide you takes skill and patience. Decision science researcher Graeme Newell shows you how a cognitive bias called “survivorship bias” can compel you to choose the wrong person.
What is “Proportionality” Bias?
Wonder how all those weird conspiracy theories get started? You can thank the cognitive bias called “proportionality bias.” Learn how ALL OF US distort reality when big events become hard to explain.
When are We Most Vulnerable to Impulsive Decisions?
Cognitive biases are always waiting to trip up our very flawed human brains. Learn specific ways you can sharpen your decision-making skills and avoid bad choices.
Pump Up Your Decision-Making Smarts
Availability Bias makes us overvalue things we can easily remember. Learn how this pesky brain bias covertly warps your most important choices.
What is Bias for Action?
After a setback, our very flawed human brain will often tempt us to immediately spring into action. It just feels better to DO SOMETHING, even if it’s the wrong thing to do. Many times, the best strategy is not to automatically act, but instead, to pause, assess and plan a smart next move.
Financial Planning Education: Preventing Losses When Markets Get Scary
Solid financial planning education means planning for down financial markets and staying on track. Brain science reveals the moments when we’re most vulnerable to rash financial planning decisions. Learn how to avoid the “bias for action” that causes so many smart investors to slip up.
Best Corona Virus Marketing Strategy – Covid Marketing Strategy Made Simple
Finding the best corona virus marketing strategy is so important right now. A solid corona virus marketing strategy is something that many brands are struggling with in these troubled times. The corona virus has caught many marketing strategy pros flat-footed, asking themselves, how could my covid marketing strategy fall so flat?!
The Emotions that Connect Best with Financial Services Customers
Each of us has our own financial fantasy. For some it’s fast cars, big boats and the opulent life. For others, it’s a dream vacation or a secure retirement. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell tested hundreds of examples of financial services marketing. Which financial dreams were most appealing? Learn what the latest brain research is revealing.
Best Ways Financial Services Companies can Touch the Hearts of their Customers
Fantasies about the good life are wildly different for every financial service customer. Some dream of the opulent life filled with luxury, while others have more pragmatic goals of a simple but comfortable retirement. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell show you the best tactics for whetting your customer’s desire to save.
The Best Ways to Quickly Grab Customer Attention
The biggest marketing problem today isn’t convincing customers you have a quality product. The biggest problem is getting customer to recognize that your product merely exists. Today’s distraction-inundated world demands your messaging be strategically honed word by word, second by second. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell taps the latest neuroscience testing to reveal the best tactics for grabbing attention and how over-the-top tactics can backfire.
Simple and Easy Ways to Win your Customers Heart
Creating messaging that cuts through the clutter and touches people emotionally is the magic combo for marketers. The good news is that this elusive duo may be easier to attain than you thought. New neuroscience research is peering inside the brains of customers and showing the specific emotional marketing techniques that grab attention and leave them feeling a warm emotional glow. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell shows you the best ways to make an emotional connection.
Best Ways to Get Customers Excited About Products
What are the most powerful emotional drivers in the world of marketing? New neuroscience research is revealing that the most powerful human motivators are the feelings most basic to human survival. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell shows how smart marketers utilize these emotions. You’ll learn the best ways to assure your products connect.
How to Assure Customers Engage with your Marketing
Online content viewers are more distracted than ever. So how can you cut through the clutter and get noticed. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell gives you a second-by-second guide for the best ways to grab customer attention, then how to guide them through your marketing content to a big payoff at the end.
Simple marketing vs sophisticated marketing – which is more effective?
The most powerful marketing will have a message that dazzles both the intellect and the heart, but which is most important? Powerful new neuroscience research is peering inside the brains of typical customers and showing the best ways to build effective marketing. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell explains how to build your messaging so it appeals on a deep instinctual level.
Visuals vs Sound – Which Connects Best?
When creating video content, which is more important: the visuals or the sound? Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell taps the latest neuroscience to show how your brain connects with online content. Learn the best techniques to score an emotional, memorable impression with your customers.
Best Ways to Assure Your Marketing Gets Remembered
Building marketing content that cuts through clutter is harder than ever, but new neuroscience insights are revealing the specific storytelling techniques that are most successful at emotionally engaging customers. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell shows you the best ways to assure your product features get remembered.
The Delicate Art of Using Fear to Market Your Product
Fear is one of the most powerful human emotions. It is an amazing attention grabber and used strategically, it can entice customers like no other emotion. But new neuroscience research is revealing how poisonous heavy-handed fear tactics can be. Emotional marketing researcher Graeme Newell reveals new research revelations on the best ways to compel without frightening.