27 APR 2013 by ideonexus

 Handling Self Doubt

I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don't know. So paradoxically, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you might tend to fixate on the growing collection of unlearned peripheral concepts that you become conscious of along the way. That can manifest itself as feelings of fraudulence when people are calling you a "guru" or "expert" while you're internally overwhelmed by the ever-expanding volumes of things you're learning that you don't know. However, ...
Folksonomies: learning cognitive bias
Folksonomies: learning cognitive bias
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When dealing with self-doubt about one's abilities, remember that what you don't know is a treasure map that less-skilled people don't have.