Baby boomers: why the swaggering levels of overconfidence? Could it be your age? | Mark Egan

Think of Britain’s Covid debacle and the Post Office scandal. As a behavioural scientist, I have seen how ruinous blind belief can be Confidence is complicated. Ted talks try to teach you how to get it; parents want it for their children; for those who don’t have it, it seems almost impossible to acquire. Entrepreneurs, social-media influencers and job applicants will project certainty even when internally racked with self-doubt – which is perhaps no surprise, given that virtua