Expand Your Thinking

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a somewhat well known cognitive bias. It is the tendency of most people to overestimate their knowledge of a subject and their competency in the field and in their skills. The less a person knows about a topic the more they tend to think they know about it or are good at it. To some extent, the reverse is true (to a point). The more you know, the more you know you don’t know about a subject and the less you think of your competency. After a while, though, your confidence in your knowledge picks up…