The Power of Negative Thinking: The Impact of Overconfidence

🌍 Argentina's confidence despite its declining state.

🧠 The relationship between self-perceived abilities and actual abilities.

🌎 Studies conducted in 40 different countries.

💡 There is a weak relationship between competence and confidence.

🔍 Overconfidence is a pervasive bias in human thought.

🌑 Overconfidence has a dark side that is often overlooked.

🎰 Compulsive gambling is caused by overconfident consumers who overestimate their ability to pay back loans.

🚭 Addicts often underestimate the harmful effects of their addictions and think it will happen to others, not themselves.

💪 Overconfidence leads to a culture where confidence is mistaken for competence.

🤔 Understanding why arrogant and psychopathic employees are commonly promoted to managerial levels.

💪 Exploring the reasons behind the lack of women in leadership positions.

🌟 Examining the obsession with fame and the culture of self-worship.

🔑 Low confidence is a threat detection signal that tells you not to do something.

💡 Low self-concept highlights the difference between the person you want to be and the person you think you are.

📚 Reducing the gap between confidence and competence requires hard work, not relying on self-help books.

✨ Low confidence and insecurities help in maintaining modesty and humility.

👍 Negative feedback makes us more coachable.

🛑 Negative feedback prevents complacency.

😊 Negative feedback makes us more likeable.