You can prepare all you want for a job interview, but still be asked a curveball question that leaves you stumped for how to answer. Should you say “I don’t know” when you actually don’t know? The ...

In the old movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, we see a common fear lived out. A knight is asked a riddle. Unsure how to answer it, he says, “I don’t know,” and is launched into a ravine, never to ...

Children have returned to school. Not only is the initial “honeymoon” period over, but so are the hopes that whatever previous social behavioral difficulties they had last spring would have vanished ...

Dear Eric: My best friend of nearly 50 years has been diagnosed with cancer, and the prognosis isn’t good. Naturally, I want to support her, but she’s making it very challenging. I just spoke with her ...

This column originally ran in 2020. Dear Annie: I am at my wits’ end. I don’t know what to do for my 29-year-old grandson. He needs help, but I don’t know how to help him. This is what I call a wasted ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a disturbing cognitive bias that afflicts us all. People with limited expertise in an area tend to overestimate how much they know—and we all have gaps in our ...