“We have to be willing to let someone else make mistakes and do it worse sometimes.” Marissa Lingen reminds us that it’s important to step back from particular volunteer jobs if you’ve been doing them for a long time — for your own sake, and for the h…
Rational difficulties
Why is it so hard to be rational? “In everyday life, the biggest obstacle to metacognition is what psychologists call the “illusion of fluency.” As we perform increasingly familiar tasks, we monitor our performance less rigorously; this happens when we…