How to Build Better Institutions

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Psychology: How to avoid a over confidence tat leads you over the cliff. In Holland, they're unfortunately in lig throug a lot of medic skills there. So it's thot a surprised at some of them were not very good at what they do. The first is that although it's unpleasant, you do want to have nasaying voices involved in any sort of decision that you make. That is, you want someone to play a devil's advocate,. To poke holes in what the group or the institution might be thinking about what it wants to do.

In this episode, we explore why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are.

The evidence gathered so far by psychologists and neuroscientists seems to suggest that each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning. Part of that ignorance is a blind spot we each possess that obscures both our competence and incompetence called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

It's a psychological phenomenon that arises sometimes in your life because you are generally very bad at self-assessment. If you have 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 – then you may have experienced this effect. It is very easy to be both unskilled and unaware of it, and in this episode we explore why that is with professor David Dunning, one of the researchers who coined the term and a scientist who continues to add to our understanding of the phenomenon.

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