The Perils of Overconfidence: Lessons from Real-Life Experiences

Name [Name] Number of words: 633 [Name] Overconfidence is a cognitive bias making people overestimate their actual ability to successfully perform a task by believing that their performance is better than that of others or excessive certainty of accuracy (Sanchez and Dunning, 2018). One example is going for an interview with surety that I will get the job but get contrary results. I thought I had prepared well and believed that the interview would be as simple as 123, having spent most of my time in the organization as an intern in the sales department, and now the sales representative position has emerged. On entering the interviewing room, I felt so empty thus responded to questions so shallowly. I left the interview room feeling that I overestimated my pote