Anne gorido writes that her previous job as a manager, i didn't know anything about the company or the tasks involved. Well, alex reeds says he had no idea how to teach his first year teaching with no materials. Man, you you think they have it all figured out, but you know, many times you just have to make it up on the spot. A mohammed akramudin was confident about driving a car at 13, but then he started using the brakes and realized he actually was scared when he accelerated because he was pressing the wong petals.
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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