Most people are overconfident. There’s an evolutionary reason for this.
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Do you actually know how a bicycle or a zipper work, or what a penny or a common brand logo look like? Intellectual humility can help reduce overconfidence in what you don’t understand.
When people know someone used AI to write a message, they see the person as lazy or insincere.
An intellectually humble person may have strong commitments to various beliefs − but balanced with an openness to the likelihood that others, too, may have valuable insights, ideas and evidence.
Why companies should be worried about diversity in ‘top jobs’ and what they can do to make this happen.
Many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do. That overconfidence can thwart democratic politics.
Overconfidence is often a contributing factor to market crashes, like the financial crisis of 2008.
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A podcast about confidence – from how it works in our brains and whether it can get us ahead at work to how confidence tricksters fool people into falling for their scams.
The Greek myths teach that pride comes before a fall – something that our leaders, filled with hubris, rarely see before it’s too late.
If a company is led by an overconfident CEO, the firm is less likely to invest in corporate social responsibility measures like workforce diversity.
When making judgements it pays to be humble, seek out new perspectives, and expect to make mistakes.
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