Book Titles

…it’s when we lack competence that we’re most likely to be brimming with overconfidence.

The less intelligent we are in a particular domain, the more we seem to overestimate our actual intelligence in that domain.

…some of this comes down to our fragile egos. We’re driven to deny our weaknesses when we want to see ourselves in a positive light or paint a glowing picture of ourselves to others.

When we lack the knowledge and skills to achieve excellence, we sometimes lack the knowledge and skills to judge excellence.

It’s when we progress from novice to amateur that we become overconfident.

In too many domains of our lives, we never gain enough expertise to question our opinions or discover what we don’t know.

We take pride in making rapid progress, which promotes a false sense of mastery. That jump-starts an overconfidence cycle, preventing us from doubting what we know and being curious about what we don’t.

…a crucial nutrient for the mind: humility. The antidote to getting stuck on Mount Stupid is taking a regular dose of it.

Humility is often misunderstood. It’s not a matter of having low self-confidence… It’s about being grounded – recognizing that we’re flawed and fallible.

We become blinded by arrogance when we’re utterly convinced of our strengths and our strategies. We get paralyzed by doubt when we lack conviction in both.