An interesting article about "illusory superiority" (people that have it may be perceived as narcissistic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority h

An interesting article about "illusory superiority" (people that have it may be perceived as narcissistic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority I think that people that avoid highly difficult and frustrating tasks tend to overestimate their capabilities, importance, etc. Happens a lot in software engineering as well. Some people learn important, but rather mainstream topics like imperative programming and basic OOP and think they've mastered programming.