Do You Know Yourself?

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Knowing thyself is an intrinsically difficult task. The world doesn't give us the information we need treally no what we're good at. We often think we're capable of lots of things that we actually aren't capable of. People really believe rather positive images of themselves. Though when you actually test out what people can actually do, or what they really do, the picture isn't that positive.

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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