The Dunning-Kruger effect (aka the story of my life)
Here’s my career story in decades… 20s: Wildly confident. 30s: Self-doubting. 40s: Growing, grounded confidence. I’m a textbook case of the Dunning-Kruger effect. What is it? It’s a cognitive bias described by two American psychologists in 1999. It plots the relationship between knowledge and confidence.…