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Knowledge Under Pressure

On Building Mindsets, Hindsight, and Learning

Dan Dworkis, MD PhD
2 min readOct 13, 2022
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

Field notes from what we’ve been up to, what we’ve been taking in, and what we are thinking about at The Emergency Mind Project.

If you have ideas or things you’d like to see — or if you want to help and get more involved — I’d love to hear from you: dan@emergencymind.com

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The Emergency Mind Project X First Responders Yoga

Dan Dworkis joins the team at First Responders Yoga in Ottawa to talk about mindset, training, and philosophy for frontline responders. We dig into details about training the mind and the body to respond to intense circumstances, interception and processing stress, and a lot more.

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Hindsight Bias and “Knowing It All Along”

“Hindsight bias is our tendency to look back at an event that we could not predict at the time and think the outcome was easily predictable” Great breakdown of a bias that’s super important when we try to post-process events and evolve from them. Worth reading before your next after action report / root cause analysis.

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With the constant supply of problem sets we face in the ER, it can be really easy to focus on…

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Dan Dworkis, MD PhD
Dan Dworkis, MD PhD

Written by Dan Dworkis, MD PhD

Emergency Doctor. Applying knowledge under pressure. The Emergency Mind Book: bit.ly/emindbook

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