Do You Have the Best Voice in the World?

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What people say to your face is not what they're saying about you behind your back. There may be other people who are painfully aware, and i do mean painfully aware, that you don't have the best voice in the world. They may actually be enablers in the belief that you can’t actually sing good enough to go on aaditioniiso mediocrity enables. This is just a conspiracy we do for each other. That's a great turm wy, actually, it actually is a great term. But the key about that is, if you go through the day, just mark how many times during the day you're being a mediocrity an

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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