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Avogadro’s number, 163
avoidance and procrastination, 85–86
avoiding overconfidence, 20, 225–37, 247, 248, 254

background, working on a problem, 44
backward, working, 68
Baddeley, Alan, 62
“bad” trait, understanding value of, 221
ball bearing and Thomas Edison, 32
Bannister, Roger, 127
Batalha, Celso, 217–18
bed, bath, bus (three B’s), 30
befuddlement and learning, 22
Beilock, Sian, 103, 250, 250–51
belief part of zombies (habits), 88, 95, 99–100, 107
Bell, E. T., 223–24
Bellini, Marco, 206, 206
benzoyl peroxide and acne, 129
“big-picture” perspective, 12, 18, 19, 20, 30, 226, 227, 228, 247, 248
See also diffuse mode of thinking
big-picture top-down chunking process, 59, 60, 61, 61, 70, 79
Bilder, Robert, 49, 49–50
birds, survival instincts, 20
bite-sized pieces, breaking work into, 24–25, 97, 99, 103, 103–7, 104, 108, 132, 138, 149, 151, 151, 253,
258
Black-Derman-Toy model, 199
blinking and focusing, 37, 247, 248, 249
Blowers, Paul, 233
Bohr, Niels, 229–30, 230
bottom-up chunking process, 59, 60, 61, 61, 70, 79
Bradley, James V., xvii–xviii
Bradshaw, Bob, 242