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portada Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
150
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781804287217

Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

Simon Blackwood (Author) · Readers First Publishing LTD · Hardcover

Why Smart People Do Stupid Things - Simon Blackwood

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Synopsis "Why Smart People Do Stupid Things"

Being wrong about something feels, from the inside, exactly the same as being right. That equivalence is why abank robber covers his face with lemon juice (believing it makes him invisible to cameras), why day traderswith three months of experience outperform the market until month four (when they start losing money fasterthan beginners), and why the most confident job candidate in your interview pool is statistically the least likelyto succeed in the role. Part of The Bias Files, Simon Blackwood's insightful book explores the gap betweenactual competence and perceived competence, and the specific cognitive mechanism that makes that gapinvisible to the person standing in it.When you move from novice to beginner in any skill-investing, hiring, diagnosing, evaluating your ownperformance-you cross into territory where you know enough to form opinions but not enough to know whichopinions are thin. Why Smart People Do Stupid Things is not a productivity guide, a confidence-buildingprogram, or a collection of cautionary anecdotes. Instead, it unpacks the Dunning-Kruger effect as ameasurable, testable phenomenon, then shows you that phenomenon operating across eight domains where thecost of misjudgment is documented and real.Through controlled research and case studies, you will see the same pattern repeat in contexts where stakes varybut the structure holds constant:- The Double Burden: The knowledge required to perform a task well is the same knowledge required toevaluate your own performance, creating a closed loop where incompetence masks itself from the personexperiencing it. Read more

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