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The more inept you are the smarter you think you are

The Dunning-Kruger effect!

 

Good comment/observation, do we really know ourselves very well, and/or do we actually want to?
Arm in arm with this goes the ambition/ability balance, very few people have this in equilibrium, you only have to watch any episode of "the apprentice" to realise the dangers of an imbalance, unfortunately this also applies to many of our elected leaders!

 

Burns had it sussed back in 1786 ��

And would some Power the small gift give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!

To a Louse - of course. And the proper version....

d some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!