Overconfidence and the Art of Knowing Yourself | The Curiosity Shop

What happens when your confidence outruns your competence? Brené and Adam start with freestyle skiing champ Eileen Gu’s extraordinary Olympic press conference and use it to explore metacognition—how to notice your thinking, question it, and change it on purpose. They dig into the Dunning–Kruger effect, calibration, journaling, and feedback, discuss why we’re so bad at estimating timelines, and consider how “I’ve got this” energy can quietly wreck projects, relationships, and learning. From pickleball and ping pong to therapy and team meetings, this episode is about building the inner game of better thinking without losing your nerve along the way. #BrenéBrown #AdamGrant #thecuriosityshop Don't miss a video! Subscribe NOW:    / @thecuriosityshop   About The Curiosity Shop: Research professor Brené Brown and organizational psychologist Adam Grant are partnering on a new weekly podcast grounded in an unflinching commitment to learning and unlearning. At a time when public discourse rewards certainty over inquiry, The Curiosity Shop features two of the world's most sought-after experts on connection, change, and leadership making the case for slowing down, asking better questions, and embracing informed complexity over easy answers. Bringing together their left and right brain sensibilities — she’s a qualitative researcher; he’s a quantitative researcher — they explore some of the defining questions of our time, unpack the research reshaping how we live, lead, and love, and dive deep into the ideas, evidence, and cultural moments intriguing them the most. New episodes drop every Thursday. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Connect with The Curiosity Shop: Instagram:   / thecuriosityshop   Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3oEPsPK... Connect with Brené Brown: Instagram:   / brenebrown   LinkedIn:   / brenebrown   Facebook:   / brenebrown   Connect with Adam Grant: Instagram:   / adamgrant   LinkedIn:   / adammgrant   X: https://x.com/adammgrant/ ============================= Chapters: 0:00 - Introductions 3:45 - Eileen Gu’s Metacognition 12:22 - What is Metacognition? 25:10 - What is Dunning-Kruger? 38:14 - Time Estimation and The Planning Fallacy 44:36 - Metacognition and Dunning-Kruger Final Thoughts 58:17 - Wrap up Show Notes: https://thecuriosityshop.com/podcast/... Overconfidence and the Art of Knowing Yourself | The Curiosity Shop    / @thecuriosityshop