Overconfidence: The Most Dangerous Bias in Finance

The Risk Manager’s Guide to Money

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In this episode

Overconfidence is the most dangerous bias in finance. It turns intelligence into fragility, experience into blindness, and success into vulnerability. In this episode, we explore why smart people make the biggest mistakes, why certainty is punished by markets, and how the illusion of control leads to catastrophic risk. If you want to understand the psychology behind financial blowups, this episode is for you.