Confidence vs. Competence— Why We Trust the Wrong People.

We have entered an era where having an opinion is being confused with having expertise.

And the people actually doing the work are often too busy doing the work to compete with the people talking about it.

Are we following people because they've demonstrated expertise, or because they've mastered the appearance of expertise?

This is your wake-up call.

Below are three psychology-based concepts that I mentioned worth exploring:

— The illusion of explanatory depth: People can believe they understand something more thoroughly than they…

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