In "The Too-Sure Thing" (#42, page 54), social scientist James Fowler explained how, fairly or not, overconfident individuals often manage to outcompete the rest of us. While I can appreciate the larger societal impact of people endowed with an abundance of confidence, I also believe that we as a society allow this trait to survive. We want leaders who can make the decisions that would keep the rest of us up at night, and then we encourage and reinforce their behavior by rewarding them without questioning the means by which their success was achieved.
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