Have you ever walked out of an argument completely sure that you were right, only to realize later that maybe you weren’t? Or felt confident explaining something you barely understood? Don’t worry, you’re not broken. You’re just human. Our brain, as powerful as it is, has this funny habit of lying softly to us. Not out of cruelty, but out of comfort. It wants us to feel safe, certain, and in control. So it bends the truth just enough to make us feel okay. But sometimes, that gentle lie builds a wall between who we think we are and who we actually are. There’s a strange thing our mind does when we know only a little - it convinces us that we know a lot. Psychologists call it the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s like standing on the first step of a mountain and believing you’ve already seen the whole view. The less we know, the more confident we feel. But as we climb higher - as we learn, unlearn, stumble, and grow - we begin to see how much more there is to understand. Ironically, those who ...
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