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People tend to overestimate their own talent and underestimate the structural advantages that amplify their success.

Drawn from what Henry Farrell said

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behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Henry Farrell actually said

  1. Henry Farrell Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author
    we are systematically likely to overestimate our own individual awesomeness, and to underestimate the external power asymmetries that magnify our voices.

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