This Is Your Brain's Default Setting--Here's How And When To Change It

We may be hardwired for overconfidence, but there's more than one trigger for it and it's not always a bad thing.

We may be hardwired for overconfidence, but there's more than one trigger for it and it's not always a bad thing.

We love stories about blind faith—Sylvester Stalone turning down deals until someone let him play Rocky, J.K. Rowling going from a single parent on public assistance to the creative force behind a billion-dollar multimedia empire. People who show extreme, even irrational self-confidence in the face of long odds show us that some degree of that might be helpful.

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