What if the greatest barrier to your success isn't what you don't know, but what you think you know that simply isn't so?

This episode explores the subtle architecture of stupidity – not as a personal failing, but as a series of distinct patterns that emerge in all human thinking.

We'll journey through seven varieties, from the straightforward lack of cognitive ability to the more insidious systemic stupidity that quietly infects organizations and societies.

You'll discover how the most brilliant minds often fall prey to overthinking stupidity, rejecting elegant solutions in favor of complex ones.

We'll examine how groups collectively generate stupidity that no individual would create alone, and how our identities and egos become entangled with ideas, making us defend positions that no longer serve us or reflect reality.

Learnings:

Join us in reimagining how we think about thinking – because understanding stupidity might be the most intelligent thing we can do.

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Chapters:

00:00 Analyzing different types of stupidity

01:58 #1 - Pure Stupidity

04:45 #2 - Ignorance

08:07 #3 - Overconfident expert stupidity

10:55 #4 - Rule-Based Stupidity

18:30 #5 - Overthinking stupidity

23:37 #6 - Organizational Stupidity

26:55 #7 - Ego Based Stupidity

32:07 Stupidity is often a deliberate choice

35:03 Send Off

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