Overconfidence: The Icarus Paradox
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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What is overconfidence? We tend to know it when we see it, but the concept is increasingly hard to nail down the more you think about it. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the mythic roots of hubris, the psychology of overconfidence and its role in society and business.
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