Confidently Ignorant and Ignorantly Confident

The Dunning-Kruger effect, misguided dreams, and jumping on the bandwagon.

• It is energetically expensive maintaining a state of mental/physical growth. Unless of course you create a lifestyle that rewards learning and punishes stagnation. 
• The Dunning-Kruger effect is the easier path to take when you feel you’ve understood a concept to a certain extent. Unfortunately we don’t know what we don’t know. Overconfidence is usually a good sign that the person has misunderstood their own competence within a given subject. ***Show graphs and dig deeper into history and examples***
• Accepting a role/purpose given to you. Can be based on your peer’s perceived identity of you (fear of destabilizing your position in the group), the expectations placed on you by your family or community, or the lack of experience and few options causing you to settle. Passive and not conducive towards authenticity. 
• “If your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?” Not maturing and continuing to follow the trend that your peers are. Fear of the unknown again. To go out on your own and try new experiences is exhausting when you’ve always followed others. 
• Learning how to check your status and to be held accountable by those around you. Relying on honesty rather than status-anxiety.