The more you think you know, the less you understand.
This doesn’t quite make sense to me.
That would suggest that my perceived knowledge about plumbing systems is a strong indicator that I don’t actually understand them - despite having done it professionally for over a decade.
What I think is true is that someone with a very basic level of knowledge simply doesn’t know what they don’t know - which explains the strong conviction and lack of nuance, for example. But I don’t think that the belief in one’s knowledge or abilities alone is an indicator of the opposite being true.
Then ask yourself this: what proportion of people who consider themselves knowledgeable or intelligent do so based on evidence rather than the Dunning-Krueger effect or simple buffoonery? And what proportion of people who actually boast about it have the emotional intelligence to make interacting with them worthwhile? There’s a reason this behavior is frowned upon.
The more you think you know, the less you understand. It’s just how humans function, so if you think you’re smart the odds are that you are not.
This doesn’t quite make sense to me.
That would suggest that my perceived knowledge about plumbing systems is a strong indicator that I don’t actually understand them - despite having done it professionally for over a decade.
What I think is true is that someone with a very basic level of knowledge simply doesn’t know what they don’t know - which explains the strong conviction and lack of nuance, for example. But I don’t think that the belief in one’s knowledge or abilities alone is an indicator of the opposite being true.
Then ask yourself this: what proportion of people who consider themselves knowledgeable or intelligent do so based on evidence rather than the Dunning-Krueger effect or simple buffoonery? And what proportion of people who actually boast about it have the emotional intelligence to make interacting with them worthwhile? There’s a reason this behavior is frowned upon.