Don Moore – Beat Overconfidence Bias by Considering What You’re Neglecting

<p><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-moore-01725b/"><strong>Don Moore</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">holds the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include overconfidence, including when people think they are better than they are, when people think they are better than others, and when they are too sure they know the truth. He is only occasionally overconfident.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He is the author of</span> <a href="https://perfectlyconfident.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>“We let ourselves get carried away when we think that somehow believing in ourselves is enough to ensure success. It’s not.”</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don Moore</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <h2><strong>Worst investment ever</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Unleash the power within</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don found himself at a Tony Robbins course,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unleash the Power Within</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">that he believed would change his life. The life coach had been enormously influential in lots of people’s lives. Don had read his books as a young man and was thoroughly inspired.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The four-day course challenges those in attendance to think big about their goals and their lives, to confront the challenges that are holding them back. To help them figure out how to break through those challenges so they can live their highest ideals and the best life that they could imagine for themselves.</span></p> <h3><strong>Walking on fire</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the course is the famous final firewalk. Before it started,