Ask a roomful of people if they are above average at anything—driving, cooking, performing on the job—and more than half of them will raise their hands. We tend to overestimate our abilities in areas we feel comfortable with, and each of us feels a sense of overconfidence in at least an area or two of our lives.
False Confidence
Ask a roomful of people if they are above average at anything—driving, cooking, performing on the job—and more than half of them will raise their hands. We tend to overestimate our abilities in areas we feel comfortable with, and each of us feels a sense of overconfidence in at least an area or two of our lives.
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