Are We Not Very Good at Assessing Ourselfes?

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Genius often just hides in plain sight because peoples don't have h intellectual scaffolding to be able to recognize it. And so that whether that genius is embodied in a person or in an idea, a, a people or the collective, often just doesn't have the genius itself to know what it is. It seems like we are not very good at assessing our own selves. Is it just a glitch or a bug in the system? What is your take on on that?

Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you thought you were more skilled at something than you actually were? At its most extreme, this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect - the fact that it is very easy to be both unskilled and unaware, and in this episode we explore how it works and where you might expect to see it your own life.

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