Nate Auffort explains how ego and false confidence stop people from admitting what they don't know. A zipper you use every day but can't explain, a golfer who won't change his grip and keeps hitting the same bad shot: pride blocks learning.
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Ego is a tricky thing, right? None of us want to be wrong. So you called the illusion of knowledge. You know, I asked people, how does a zipper work? And people are like, stand up. You know how zipper works? And they all stand up and go, how's it actually work? And no one can tell me how zipper works. But they have that illusion of knowledge. Like, we don't want to feel stupid. We don't want to feel like we don't know what we should know because we're 50 or 47 or we've been in sales or whatever the case may be. And, you know, it just kind of. It freezes people from having success because they think like, you know, it's like, I'd rather teach someone who's never played golf to golf than. Or I teach somebody who can hit it far, but it always slices. You tell them to move their hand. Like, I don't want to hold it that way. Well, as long as you hold it this way, you're going to keep slicing the ball. So.