Overconfidence

Overconfidence is something that I feel is very common in our society. Weather it be overconfidence in the classroom, sports, or even our social lives it seems to be a big problem. Although it may not seem like a big deal overconfidence almost always seems to have a negative effect on people. For example we see this problem in sports a lot. A better team who is playing a team that has been struggling may slack in preparation for the game. At the conclusion of the game the team that wasn’t as good in many cases has beaten their supposedly better opponents. If the better team had prepared like they normally would have for a game the results may have been different. The effects of overconfidence can also be seen in students preparing for an exam. Some students may think they know the material and slack off in their studying before the exam. Once the exam begins they realize that they don’t know the material as well as they thought they may have and should have prepared themselves better.