How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots  

Stop Sabotaging Your Decision-Making and Become More Effective

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

•  1. Understand the reason for blind spots •  2. Become self aware of your own blind spots •  3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots •  4. What action and what systems can we implement

to outsmart our blind spots? •  5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the

effect your blind spots have on you?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

•  1. Understand the reason for blind spots •  2. Become self aware of your own blind spots •  3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots •  4. What action and what systems can we implement

to outsmart our blind spots? •  5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the

effect your blind spots have on you?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

Exercise: What is a blind spot?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

Blind spots are inherent thinking errors we make in processing

information.

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

We  Are  Literally  of    Two  Minds

Human Brain (Prefrontal Cortex) Slow Deliberate Conscious Creative

Lizard Brain (Amygdala)

Automatic Unconscious Instantaneous Avoids being eaten by dinosaurs

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

FOUR  BASIC  NEEDS:  

•  1. Feeling of being Certain •  2. Feeling of being in Control •  3. Avoid feeling Loss ($, power, relationship, status)

•  4. Feeling Socially Connected

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

•  1. Understand the reason for blind spots •  2. Become self aware of your own blind spots •  3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots •  4. What action and what systems can we implement

to outsmart our blind spots? •  5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the

effect your blind spots have on you?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

Exercise: Write down three blind spots you have. Write down three blind spots you see in

others (probably easier to observe).

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

FOUR  BASIC  NEEDS:   •  1. Feeling of being Certain

•  2. Feeling of being in Control •  3. Avoid feeling Loss ($, power, relationship, status)

•  4. Feeling Socially Connected

We can generally tie the blind spot/ behaviors to one of these

needs!

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

•  1. Understand the reason for blind spots •  2. Become self aware of your own blind spots •  3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots •  4. What action and what systems can we implement

to outsmart our blind spots? •  5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the

effect your blind spots have on you?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

Exercise: Write down the personal and

professional costs of acting out these blind spots.

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How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

What would be possible if you were

able to identify and avoid acting out of these blind spots?

At the end of the day-you don't

want your human brain to be trumped by your lizard brain!

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

•  1. Understand the reason for blind spots •  2. Become self aware of your own blind spots •  3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots •  4. What action and what systems can we implement

to outsmart our blind spots? •  5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the

effect your blind spots have on you?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

Action Steps: •  Assume you have a blind spot •  Gather trusted others •  Create an open-minded culture •  Make “no” an acceptable answer •  SLOW DOWN •  Profiling systems- objective data

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How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

CHANGE IS HARD!

CHANGE IS DANGEROUS! LIZARD BRAIN

HATES IT!

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

•  1. Understand the reason for blind spots •  2. Become self aware of your own blind spots •  3. Run a personal cost analysis of your blind spots •  4. What action and what systems can we implement

to outsmart our blind spots? •  5. How do we maintain vigilance and reassess the

effect your blind spots have on you?

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

How  to  Outsmart  Your  Blind  Spots

  The  challenge  of  being  human-­‐‑ Having  a  brain  

capable  of  greatness   but  hardwired  for  

survival!

Dr.  Keith  Kesler

Give  me  a  call  for  a  complimentary  one  on  one  consultation.

Dr.  Keith  Kesler Psychoanalyst,  Executive  Coach,  Change  Engineer