You Don't Know Anything - The Illusion of Explanatory Depth - FutureIQ
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Dec 01, 2023
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Have you ever thought that you know a thing well but diving a little deep, you realize you don't know it as much? This is the concept called the illusion of explanatory depth. This explains our inability to explain things we think we know a lot of. Let's see how it applies in our lives and how you can stay avoid looking like an overconfident person who doesn't really know anything.
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Books mentioned in the video:
Antifragile: https://tapthe.link/csrU2hjqE
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:50 The experiment
04:32 The explanation
05:50 WhatsApp forwards & more scenarios
08:00 The effective way to learning
09:53 How to avoid this?
12:13 The OODA loop
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