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http://arata.se/comoaprender - How to Learn Faster –Are there people so stupid they can't recognize their own stupidity? The question isn't well formulated because we must first criticize this concept of STUPIDITY, in contrast to the concept of SKILLS. It's important to know (i) what we know and (ii) what we don't know. And this has to do with developing our metacognition, our knowledge of our knowledge. In episode #04 of the Arata Books series, we briefly mentioned metacognition when analyzing the book *The Intellectual Life*, by A. D. Sertillanges. It's inappropriate to say that there are foolish people, stupid people. This generalizes and labels individuals. Saying someone is stupid or imbecile is like declaring an immutable and universal nature. A stupid person doesn't know and will never learn to do anything correctly. There's a certain disturbing determinism in this labeling, which is used to justify supremacy and prejudice. It's different from saying someone behaves stupidly in a given situation. We begin today's video with the story of McArthur Wheeler, who robbed two banks in Pittsburgh, United States. The police easily arrested him immediately afterward because the only disguise he used was lemon juice. His story is recounted in the introduction to David Dunning and Justin Kruger's study "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments," giving rise to the term "Dunning-Kruger effect." For those interested in developing study skills, we invite you to visit: http://arata.se/comoaprender