Bulletproof Problem Solving

Put simply, the world no longer rewards people just for what they know—Google knows everything—but for what they can do with what they know. Problem solving is at the heart of this, the capacity of an individual to engage in cognitive processing to understand and resolve problem situations where a method of solution is not immediately obvious.”6

companies will only hire people who can see problems and organize responses.”5

Confirmation bias is falling in love with your one‐day answer. It is the failure to seriously consider the antithesis to your thesis, ignoring dissenting views—essentially picking low hanging mental fruit.
Anchoring bias is the mistaken mental attachment to an initial data range or data pattern that colors your subsequent understanding of the problem.
Loss aversion, and its relatives, the sunk cost fallacy, book loss fear, and the endowment effect, are a failure to ignore costs already spent (sunk) or any asymmetric valuing of losses and gains.
Availability bias is use of an existing mental map because it is readily at hand, rather than developing a new model for a new problem, or just being influenced by more recent facts or events.
Overoptimism comes in several forms including overconfidence, illusion of control or simply failure to contemplate disaster outcomes.