Ignorance

• Ignorance is unwillingness to learn. Stupidity is the incapacity to learn. Two different things. Stupid people can be enlightened. Ignorant people have to be convinced somehow that it is worthwhile to learn. The latter likely requires psychological mastery. This topic is worth studying.
• "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” — Confucius
• The English philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

Solution

• Have someone practice a habit, that is innocuous but solves ignorance, such as asking one of the Socratic Questions
• Getting people to focus on developing related skills, rather than assessing their own abilities, seems to have some effect in reducing the Dunning-Kruger effect in task performance.For example, if someone is terrible at accounting but doesn’t realize it, perhaps you teach them organization skills so that in the process of learning how to better organize paperwork and transactions, they come to realize that they are the world’s worst accountant.
• Dunning-Kruger effect - https://markmanson.net/dunning-kruger-effect