 Now, here's a musical treat, the world premiere of a new mini opera called The Incompetence Opera. It stars Maria Ferrante, Ray Bowens, and the Peter Principal Chorus, accompanied by the Dunning Kruger Effective Orchestra. Now, here is our narrator, Karen Hopkins. Thank you, Lamchop. A psychologist walks into a bar. The psychologist commiserates with the bartender. The bartender commiserates with the psychologist. Each feels stuck in their careers. The waitstaff and the customers in the bar commiserate with them. As they all commiserate, you might want to think about the Peter Principal. The Peter Principal, described in the 1960s by Canadian psychologist Lawrence J. Peter, explains that in any organization, people are promoted until they reach their level of maximum incompetence. Let me repeat that. The Peter Principal explains that in any organization, people are promoted until they reach their level of maximum incompetence. The Peter Principal got the bartender and the psychologist to where they are today. It'll probably keep them there. Let's listen to them lament. In trouble when I was young, they made me go see a shrink. She sized me up offered me a job interpreting blotted ink. She disappeared. Don't know why she went. The job was vacant. They consented when they offered me promotion, which I accepted. Pissing ignorance of psychology, I did what I thought was best. I told the clients to blow their nose and always stick out their chest. My boss got angry, then she resigned. So they made me boss, hey, I didn't mind. They offered me promotion, which I accepted. If your bosses had questioned your competence, had you managed to manage things when managing something you don't know how to do? If my bosses had any sense, they would question my competence. How I managed to do what I do when I do not know what to do. If your bosses had any sense, they would question their competence. Have they managed to manage things when managing something they don't know how to do? If my bosses had any sense, they would question their competence. How I managed to do what they do when they do not know what to do. Maybe there's uncertainty. It's hard to say how much, but certainly there's uncertainty. Maybe there's uncertainty. And then we get stuck with that. They really worked because it's managed by friend, Doug Jerks. My troubled tale is just like yours. Like maybe they made a man to the night. They ran away and their culture enjoyed. I never looked at the seats. I offered me promotion with... If your bosses had any sense, they would question your competence. Have you managed to manage things when managing something you don't know how to do? If my bosses had any sense, they would question my competence. If your bosses had any sense, they would question their competence. Have they managed to manage things when managing something they don't know how to do? If my bosses had any sense, they would question their competence. The psychologist and the bartender are still stuck in the bar commiserating with each other about how they're stuck in their careers. So everyone else is still stuck in the bar listening to them. So now the psychologist is going to share his lofty professional knowledge with us. So he's going to tell us all about something all of us already know about, something called the Peter Principle. So let's drink in his wisdom. Above the point where we're competent, we're scared to tweet hot while I explain, and then perhaps I will explain again. Explain to you this great principle so you'll understand this great prince. Principle was his idea. He wrote a book all about this principle. So to speak, we're stressed. They base promotions on who is best. The one best worker is then removed from whatever that worker is best at. If what I'm saying makes any sense. The psychologist has just learned about an important psychology research paper. The psychologist is going to explain it to us. It's something called the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's very emotional. See for yourself.