Point of view Quote by Dan Lyons

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli

“It’s the Dunning-Kruger effect: the less you know the more likely you are to perceive yourself as an expert.”

— Fiona Neill

“Have you ever come across people that you know are less competent yet they confidently claim to be otherwise? This is in fact another…

— Charles Holm

“... Bezos personifies a new breed of executive that arose with the emergence of the game-changing technologies in the 1980s and 1990s ... a…

— Richard Brandt

“Negative underachievers, like hidden gems and energy drainers, often harbour an inferiority complex due to a lack of faith in their abilities and a…

— Asuni LadyZeal

It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities.…

— Sam Harris

“It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?”

— Helen Simonson

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he…

— Susan Cain

“Elites mistakenly believe they know more than they actually do, and successes within their own specialties of knowledge lead them to overestimate their competence…

— Jayson Lusk

“As it turns out, however, the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.”

— Irving Stone