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Ever find yourself behind the wheel watching all the other cars go by and think to yourself, \u201cMan, I\u2019m a much better driver than all these clowns on the road?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s a funny thing about this question. Pretty much everyone reading this is likely to say \u201cyes.\u201d It seems we all think we\u2019re better drivers than the next guy.<\/p>\n
In a landmark 1981 study, psychologist Ola Svenson asked people in the U.S. and Sweden to rate their driving skills compared to the average person. The results? Around 80\u201393% rated themselves \u201cabove\u201d average\u2014statistically impossible\u2014with an eye-popping 93% in the American sample doing so.<\/p>\n
Psychologists call this \u201cillusory superiority,\u201d the human tendency to think we are better than average at pretty much everything. We think we are smarter, kinder, more generous and even funnier than other people. And it turns out, this unbecoming bias sneaks right into how positively we think we show up for the people we lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n