Are You as Competent as You Think You Are?

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Truth About How You Evaluate Your Career Skills
Knowing how competent we are and how we stack up against peers gives us the ability to decide when we can proceed based on our own experience and when we need to seek advice. But psychological research says we are lousy at evaluating our own capabilities and frequently overestimate our skills.

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