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Perfectly Confident
Don A. Moore
3.66 (294 Reviews)
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Business
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Discover why overconfidence destroys careers while underconfidence kills opportunity. Berkeley professor Don Moore's masterpiece - endorsed by Angela Duckworth and Daniel Pink - reveals the counterintuitive sweet spot between doubt and delusion that transforms decision-making. What's your confidence calibration costing you?

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The Confidence Paradox: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Doubt and Delusion

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We've all been told to "believe in ourselves" and "stay positive." But what if this ubiquitous advice is fundamentally wrong? Don Moore's groundbreaking research reveals that confidence isn't something to maximize-it's something to calibrate. While Tony Robbins preaches unwavering self-belief, Moore shows that the most successful people aren't the most confident; they're the most accurately confident. This distinction explains why the surgeon who doubts herself when appropriate saves more lives than the one who never questions her abilities. It's why the investor who acknowledges uncertainty outperforms the one convinced they can beat the market. The path to success isn't blind optimism-it's having the intellectual honesty to recognize what you know, what you don't, and the wisdom to tell the difference.

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The Three Dimensions of Confidence: Why We're Overconfident in Different Ways

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When Confidence Becomes Toxic: The Hidden Dangers of Self-Belief

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Thinking in Distributions: The Antidote to False Certainty

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The Entrepreneur's Paradox: Optimism's Double-Edged Sword

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Learning from Failure: The Power of Premortems

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The Middle Way: Perfect Confidence Through Intellectual Honesty

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