Self-Knowledge matters more than self-belief
- One of the features of expertise is the ability
to recognize how limited our knowledge is
- This is why many of the greatest minds have repeatedly highlighted the negative effects of confidence on competence.
- Socrates noted that the only thing he knew was that he didn’t know anything at all.
- Charles Darwin observed that confidence is more often caused by ignorance than my knowledge
Try telling people who are very pleased with themselves that they are not good at something.
- They will either think you are joking or they will confront you
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Low confidence helps you see your weakness and motivates you to overcome them.
- It is better to have realistic self-knowledge
than distorted self-belief.
- So you know what you need to work on to get better
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