Member-only story
CHANGE/INNOVATION IS EASIER WHEN…
…we experiment with situational humility.
Our overconfidence is not overshadowed by our inability to realize that we lack the expertise to evaluate our own expertise. But I could be wrong.
WE ARE WILLIAM HUNG
Its hard for humans to “see” ourselves accurately. We need a lot of internal and external feedback mechanisms (e.g., mirrors, balconies, game film, experiments) to effectively wake up — let alone integrate the feedback and make productive changes once we get it.
Remember William Hung (aka Hung Hing Cheong), the now world-famous American Idol singer of Ricky Martin’s hit song “She Bangs”? We love William. I love William — in many ways I am just like William. Early 2000’s, he entertained us all with “his charisma” (he says) and with his unconscious example of the Dunning-Kruger effect (others say).
The Dunning-Kruger effect is “a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is” — Wikipedia. Psychologists Dunning and Kruger say that “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems…
