Shane Mauss

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530 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino · Shane Mauss Is Back On The Show! | Whiskey Ginger · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

People have the most confidence in their knowledge of something when they know nothing at all.

Then you start learning about something.

You go, oh, my God, this is more complicated than I realized.

And then it's not until you have a master's degree in physics that you.

You think you maybe have the same confidence in your understanding of gravity as when you knew nothing.

And we're like, oh, yeah, things fall down.

I get it.

But within that, one of the things that we do, because confidence is such a big thing as social animals, is that, one, we overestimate ourselves.

Two, we...

like hunter gatherers had to know who, when people had different knowledge bases, like you might know how to build a shelter better than I do.

I might know how to like hunt better.

And you would know that.

And so when you're around people that have skills that you don't have, like if you're around people,

your mechanic friend you overestimate how much knowledge you have about maintenance car maintenance you do and and so they've tested this in a million ways my favorite study is this quick is is they they go they basically say the same thing twice two slightly different conditions

The control, they go, uh, scientists have discovered this new mineral.

It's it glows.

Uh, and they figured out why it glows.

They've learned everything about it.

How much do you know about this glowing mineral?

And people are like, I think I got a handle on this hypothetical thing.

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