Understanding Survivorship Bias
Survivorship bias happens when we only see the successes (survivors) individuals and businesses have, which can lead to a warped perception of success rates.
Social media creates constant survivorship bias because people only share the good and successful parts of their lives in order to make themselves look better and trustworthy, naturally hiding the parts they don’t want us to see.
Most of the time, success takes a lot of effort and failure, but people on the outside don’t see behind the scenes. Don’t be fooled - continue to put in the work if you want to improve!
No One Really Knows What They're Doing
Cognitive biases work together to make us very bad at objectively analyzing our own level of ability, competence, or intelligence. As a result, we need to be very careful when making judgments about our own ability. But on the other end of things: no one really knows what they're doing. They just know enough to be confident.