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The Dunning-Kruger effect (aka the story of my life)

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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.… 

The heavy hands on our shoulders

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Do you have an invisible, but heavy hand on your shoulder? Most of us wish to grow through life, standing ever taller and straighter as we go. Expressing ever more of our true selves. If we’re lucky, we have people who metaphorically crouch down, clasp…