The Good Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-23 · 44 min
Your work has never looked better. So why do you feel less sure of yourself than you did five years ago? In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, behavioral economist Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational and Misbelief ) unpacks a quiet problem facing ambitious leaders right now: AI is polishing your output faster than you're actually growing your capability. The result is an "illusion of competence" - work that looks sharper while the person behind it quietly stalls. We get into: Why effort and outcome have decoupled - and why working harder is making leaders feel less in control The hidden forces shaping how you judge yourself: effort discounting, social comparison on speed, and attribution error What still compounds in the AI era (hint: it's the meta-capacities machines can't touch) What "context collapse" does to leaders who lean too hard on their tools The simple weekly decision-review habit that will still be paying off in 10 years This is the kind of conversation that changes how you think about your own thinking. If your performance reviews and your nervous system are being trained on different signals, this one's for you.
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