How Does David Dunning Live His Life Differently?

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"I'm a little bit more laid back about making mistakes," he says. "It's terrible to make mistakes sometimes, and then some duces have been made." He doesn't beat himself up as much after the mistake has been made. 'People are goin to want to find you,' writes David Letterman in his final interview with dunning crugar effect.

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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