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>"True experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know. If they find themselves outside their circle of competence, they keep quiet or
by aphextron 10y ago
>"True experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know. If they find themselves outside their circle of competence, they keep quiet or simply say, “I don’t know.” This they utter unapologetically, even with a certain pride. From chauffeurs, we hear every line except this."
I'm not sure if I would call myself an "expert" at anything really, but this hits home. I take a certain kind of self righteous pride in admitting precisely the limits of my own knowledge. I feel like vocalizing it helps to internalize the fact that you do not know something, and then creates that impetus to dig deeper and truly learn, rather than just accepting the mentally lazy hand wavy "oh yeah I kinda get that" train of thought.
- visarga 10y ago> experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know In statistical learning, to learn about the world in general P(X) is much harder than to learn specific aspects of the world P(Y|X). It's hard to know what you don't know.
- Senderman 10y agoI've found that being quick to say "I don't know", "I haven't heard of that before", etc. in environments where people are often afraid to say as such, tends to pleasantly surprise people, and actually earns quite a bit of respect.