Overconfidence and the Art of Knowing Yourself
4/9/20261 hr
What happens when your confidence outruns your competence? Brené and Adam start with freestyle skiing champ Eileen Gu’s extraordinary Olympic press conference and use it to explore metacognition—how to notice your thinking, question it, and change it on purpose. They dig into the Dunning–Kruger effect, calibration, journaling, and feedback, discuss why we’re so bad at estimating timelines, and consider how “I’ve got this” energy can quietly wreck projects, relationships, and learning. From pickleball and ping pong to therapy and team meetings, this episode is about building the inner game of better thinking without losing your nerve alon...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Hank Green· Soundbite0:14
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Speaker 20:29
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Hank Green· Soundbite0:59
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Speaker 31:02
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Hank Green· Soundbite1:04
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Speaker 31:06
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Hank Green· Soundbite1:08
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Speaker 31:10
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Hank Green· Soundbite1:12
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Speaker 31:17
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