The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
This Veritasium episode unpacks our penchant for overconfidence—why your brain takes shortcuts, the real Dunning–Kruger curve, and how inflated certainty fueled rogue trader Nick Leeson and even toppled one of England’s oldest banks.
But it’s not all doom and gloom: you’ll learn why a touch of overconfidence can be helpful, how honest feedback keeps you grounded, and discover fun tools like a new tabletop game on Kickstarter (plus the Snatoms molecular kit and a weekly science newsletter) to help curb your bias.
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