Dunning Kruger Effect in Career Decisions | Pallavee Purie

How much information is enough? Do I know enough? What am I missing out on? Are you fully prepared? These questions can be troubling. They can lead to us being too serious or not serious at all. They can make us analyse too much or not analysing at all. Let me ask you some more questions. Do you have the right information? Do you know which is the relevant information for you? Do you know the correct sources of information? The Dunning-Kruger effect, is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. Some researchers also include in their definition the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance.

Let’s try and understand how this effect can impact your career decisions.

This episode contains a recording of an Instagram Live that I did with Pallavee Purie, a counselling psychologist, has worked in the field of education and mental health for more than 12 years now. She has closely worked with young adults, teachers and parents throughout her professional life to induce an in- depth understanding of the causal relationship between self regulation and mental hygiene. As the societal pressures increase in our already over- competitive world, Pallavee has assisted people of diverse age groups to acknowledge their own journey with better emotional, social and financial adjustments in place. As a digital nomad, she has also gained more interesting insights into the practical implications of the tools of psychotherapy in different social set ups.

Pallavee Purie and Saurabh Nanda discuss how knowledge, its quality and quantity and sources can impact our career decisions. Some of the topics they touch in the podcast are:

What is the Dunning Kruger effect?
Why are certain decisions easier than others?
How much information is enough?
How to avoid falling for this trap?
Listener Questions

This episode is the fourth in the series “The Psychology of Careers” where Saurabh Nanda discusses the psychology behind our career related behaviour as manifested in our choices, our decisions, our thinking and our evaluation criteria in our professional and by association, our personal lives.

Pallavee Purie, a counselling psychologist, has worked in the field of education and mental health for more than 12 years now. She has closely worked with young adults, teachers and parents throughout her professional life to induce an in- depth understanding of the causal relationship between self regulation and mental hygiene. As the societal pressures increase in our already over- competitive world, Pallavee has assisted people of diverse age groups to acknowledge their own journey with better emotional, social and financial adjustments in place. As a digital nomad, she has also gained more interesting insights into the practical implications of the tools of psychotherapy in different social set ups. She has worked for renowned schools in Delhi-NCR and Punjab, such as Cambridge International and Heritage Xperiential Schools.

Know more about her: https://www.instagram.com/mann_halka/

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Dunning Kruger Effect — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Saurabh is the recipient of the national level Josh Education Awards for “Best Initiative for Mental Health Awareness” by the Dainik Jagran group facilitated on 31st March 2022. In April 2022, he has been on-boarded as a “Mentor of Change” by the Government of India’s Atal Innovation Mission. Saurabh has been guiding students and young professionals since 2012 and guided over 20,000 students, parents, educators and young professionals across India, Japan and Denmark. His mentees are working in the top Fortune 500 companies and upcoming startups along with prestigious government positions. His mentees have studied and are studying in the top universities across the world. His mentees’ projects and research work regularly gets recognised and awarded.

Please visit https://snanda.in/ to know more. Contact SN Mentoring for getting yourself assessed for your future career and education opportunities. If you want to ask questions which Saurabh can answer in the next episode, please email your questions to namaste@snanda.in .

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