Why Do I Feel in Over My Head?

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There are so many more of these, this will last 15 more minutes. If you're in grad school and you don't feel a little bit stupid every day, then you went to the wrong ad school. Joseph rabbs is an engineer who runs into problems every day that he's never considered before. Tristan wood feels this almost every day as a field service person.

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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