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The Dunning-Kruger Effect

It’s a type of cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence in it.

This is why a person, despite his lack of knowledge or experience in a specific domain, can still think he’s amazing at it.

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The Expanding Map of Knowledge and Ignorance

You are a student of life for life. Your knowledge is expanding, but so is your ignorance, for as you continue to learn, there will always be so much more for you to further explore. 

Why you should create your own map:

  • It helps you identify your knowledg...

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 Yuval Noah Harari

"The scientific revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The greatest discovery that launched the scientific revolution was the discovery that humans do not know the answers to their most important questions."

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“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”

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“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

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Incompetence robs the mental ability to realize just how inept they are.

Incompetent people tend to:

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  • The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own

The Dunning-Kruger effect

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It's a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Inexperience masquerades as expertise. And we tend to see it in other people, but we don’t see it in ourselves.

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