The overconfidence curse

Personally/professionally less than stellar.

Apparently, Daniel Kahneman -- pretty famous economist / general social sciences guy who's won a Nobel Prize and now been profiled by Michael Lewis -- once said that, if he had a magic wand, he'd "eliminate overconfidence." Makes sense to me. Overconfidence and assumed certainty and/or "This path will be the way" ruins a lot of things, from work to rela…