437: How to Know What You Don’t Know, with Art Markman

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Art Markman: Bring Your Brain to Work Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations, which brings the humanities and the social behavioral sciences to people in business. Along with Bob Duke, Art hosts the radio show Two Guys on Your Head for KUT Radio in Austin, also available as a podcast. He’s the author of many books, most recently: Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career*. In this conversation, Art and I explore the science behind what we know and how we can both better recognize what we don’t know and increase our knowledge in that area. Research shows that others are one of our best sources of knowledge and we discuss how to make intentional connections through mentoring to accomplish this. Key Points Metacognition is the awareness of one’s own knowledge. The Dunning-Kruger explains how sometimes feels like we know more about something than we actually do. The success of expert generalists demonstrates the value of leveraging connections with others in the organization and industry. The most powerful source of knowledge is the people around you. Traditional mentoring programs aren’t ideal since they are inorganic. Seek these five kinds of people when building a team that can mentor you: coach, superstar, connector, librarian, and teammate. Resources Mentioned Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career* by Art Markman Book Notes Download my highlights from Bring Your Brain to Work in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How to Find a Mentor (episode 105) How to Grow Your Professional Network, with Tom Henschel (episode 279) What You Gain By Sponsoring People, with Julia Taylor Kennedy (episode 398) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	As human beings were able to have a concept of knowing what we don't know, but how do you get more
0:05.8	accuracy on that and then how do you actually know more?
0:10.6	On this episode, a cognitive scientist on what works in practice.
0:15.0	This is coaching for leaders episode 437.
0:19.0	Produced by Innovate Learning
0:22.0	Maximizing Human Potential.
0:24.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:30.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host,
0:34.3	Dave Stahoviac.
0:36.3	Leaders aren't born, they're made,
0:39.0	and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:42.2	through insightful conversations.
0:45.3	As leaders and really has any position in any organization, we always want to be learning
0:50.6	more and discovering more and of course there's a lot of things we don't know.
0:54.8	But how do you know which you don't know?
0:56.8	Today's guest is going to help us to really dive in on some of the psychology, on science
1:02.4	behind how our brains work but even more importantly
1:05.0	than that what are some of the practical ways that we can really become more
1:09.2	knowledgeable and to utilize the relationships and the frameworks around us in order to do that well.
1:17.2	I am thrilled to welcome to the show today, Art Markman.
1:20.4	Art is the Annabel Ier-I Worsham, Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at
1:25.9	the University of Texas at Austin. He's also the founding director of the program in Human
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