Dunning-Kruger

As Knowledge is slowly, gradually acquired, Confidence starts high, but falls quickly before starting to gradually rise.

1. Pretty damn sure you know a whole lot and feeling great about it.
2. Questioning whether you actually know at that much.
3. Acknowledging that you don't know that much.
4. Feeling ashamed and embarrassed about about not knowing that much.
5. Realizing that knowing how little you know is the first step in becoming someone who actually knows stuff.

A visual demonstration of the difference between what you think you know and what you actually know when learning something new. A variation of the Dunning-Kruger effect I found somewhere that I liked.

The Dunning-Kruger effect has its limitations, but it does seem to be a persistent phenomenon.