Reference Information:
Title: Why We Make Mistakes
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
Chapter 10:
Summary: Hallinan discusses our natural tendencies to believe that we tend to perform above average. He discusses how people have a natural overconfidence, and that counterintuitively, our confidence goes up as the difficulty of a task increases. He gives the reader several examples, including one focused on golf.
Chapter 11:
Summary: Hallinan spends this chapter discussing experts vs. novices. He discussed how becoming an expert in something usually takes years of practice, along with an interesting study on how novices usually perform a task as they learned it, even if there exists a better method out there.
Discussion: Once again, Hallinan's book remains a delight to read. I enjoy his examples, and the information he provided is not only interesting, but useful.
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