The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
David Dunning fits The Navigator because he charts the treacherous gap between what people know and what they think they know, a distinction he has mapped for decades with clinical precision. His warnings about epistemic trespassing and invisible ignorance are never abstract. They function as intellectual coordinates, handed to audiences so they can orient themselves in information-saturated terrain.
“I'm a perfect example of this. So when I go out and golf. I often end up in the rough when I drive the ball. And then I see the ball going the rough and I go out to find it later on and I'm always over guessing how far the ball went in the rough by about 20, 30 yards.”
“About the effect itself. That's the second note, though, is given this situation, we did face a dilemma in the lab, how do we fix this? How do we correct this? And so this is true in part.”
“Well, it's Flipbrain excerpts are exactly that, where the one side of the brain can point to the right object, but that's not the side of the brain that controls talking, that controls verbal skills. But if you ask the person, why did you point to that? They can come up with something.”
“That I don't know. I've only studied it within this country. And it's also related, by the way, to distrust in science. You don't have to listen to scientists, what they have to say really isn't useful.”
Masters in Business: “At the Money: Why Self-Insight Is So Important”
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