You see others who know things and have skills you don’t, and think about how remarkable they are. But what makes you remarkable doesn’t seem like anything special to you, because you only have your own perspective from which to see yourself.
And this only gets worse as you learn and expose yourself to more. You begin to understand just how much you don’t understand.
Meanwhile those who close themselves off from knowledge and learning think they understand things better than they do, so they’re overconfident in their knowledge.
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Many people have more expertise than they know.
You see others who know things and have skills you don’t, and think about how remarkable they are. But what makes you remarkable doesn’t seem like anything special to you, because you only have your own perspective from which to see yourself.
And this only gets worse as you learn and expose yourself to more. You begin to understand just how much you don’t understand.
Meanwhile those who close themselves off from knowledge and learning think they understand things better than they do, so they’re overconfident in their knowledge.
They say that intelligent people tend to recognize their shortcomings more easily than those that aren’t as intelligent/introspective.
I’m still not sure if that means I’m somewhat intelligent or just have a lot of shortcomings lol