
Dunning-Kruger
As Knowledge is slowly, gradually acquired, Confidence starts high, but falls quickly before starting to gradually rise.
- Pretty damn sure you know a whole lot and feeling great about it.
- Questioning whether you actually know at that much.
- Acknowledging that you don't know that much.
- Feeling ashamed and embarrassed about about not knowing that much.
- 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.