Beyond Doubt: Overconfidence And What It Means For Modern Society

Beyond Doubt: Overconfidence And What It Means For Modern Society

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About The Bookan Urgent Look At The Impact Of Overconfidence On Modern Society And What We Can Do To Combat It.Every One Of Us Knows Overconfidence Intimately, Although It Is Perhaps Easiest To Spot In Others. The Uncle Who Knows Everything. The City Planners Who Consistently Underestimate Timelines And Costs. The Stranger Who Lectures You On Your Subject. In Fact, The Less We Know, The More Confident We Are.But What If This Foolhardy Overconfidence Has A Reason To Persist? What If It Is A Superpower That Gives Us Longer Lives, More Motivation And, Above All, The Ability To Influence Others? From Businesspersons To Politicians, Leaders To Newsmakers, We Place Our Trust In People Who Appear To Know What They Are Doing. What If Overconfidence Is The Secret To Their Success? Can It Lead To Disaster? Are We Capable Of Seeing Through False Confidence In Time?Drawing On Research In Psychology, Political Science And Evolutionary Biologyweighing Up The Evidence And The Counterevidencebehavioural Biologist Vivek Nityananda Explores The Many Dimensions Of Overconfidence, What It Means For Modern Society And How We Can Combat It In Our Everyday Lives. An Urgent, Compellingand Entertainingread.About The Authorvivek Nityananda Grew Up In Bangalore, India, Where He Trained As A Biologist. A Scientist And A Science Communicator, Nityananda Is Currently A Bbsrc David Phillips Fellow At The Centre For Behaviour And Evolution And The Biosciences Institute At Newcastle University, Uk. He Has Several Publications In The Fields Of Evolutionary Biology, Animal Behaviour And Psychology. Nityananda Is Also An Illustrator And Has Published Short Stories, Including In Penguin Indias New Writing Anthology, First Proof 7.Find Him At Viveknityananda.Com.

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