Scientific Definition
Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
Plain-English Definition
Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
Feynman Explanation
Confidence and accuracy are different variables. Most people conflate them.
Core Principle
Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
Mechanisms
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Knowing what you know — and how confidently you know it.
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Decision quality at the executive level depends on calibration, not just knowledge.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Confidence and accuracy are different variables. Most people conflate them.
Examples
- Forecasters who calibrate well outperform domain experts who don't.
- Decision quality at the executive level depends on calibration, not just knowledge.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Track confidence vs. outcome. Calibration is a trainable skill.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Track confidence vs. outcome. Calibration is a trainable skill.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Thinking about one's own thinking.
Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally — Kabat-Zinn's working definition adopted across the Masters of Mindfulness faculty.
The NLP claim that the unconscious mind runs the body, stores memory, organizes patterns, and seeks to follow the directives it's given.
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed — a micro-intervention to insert a gap between stimulus and response.
Reading micro-shifts in another person's state — breath, color, micro-expression — in real time.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Basics first (health/finances), then depth (mastery/impact), then altruism (widening circle).
A group decides on a course of action that nobody actually wants, because everyone assumes others prefer it.
Inattention or forgetfulness caused by low attention, hyperfocus, or distraction.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.
The minimum energy needed to start a reaction; same idea for starting habits or initiatives.