Heh. This guy (looks around sheepishly) almost nailed it... For me the feeling of being a n00b is exciting and scary, but one I sort of constantly run towards

Heh. This guy (looks around sheepishly) almost nailed it... For me the feeling of being a n00b is exciting and scary, but one I sort of constantly run towards because it's the one reliable indicator that I am growing. Further, the more knowledge I acquire only emphasizes how little I know sort of making this my steady state in life. I dig it, it's a reason to get up in the morning. The more you know, the less you know. In life as we acquire knowledge we leave the darkness and step into the light, fortunately (IMHO), each time we leave that darkness we find a new world, with each world new shadows we will have to emerge from, ad infinitum. The bounds of which we can know, like our universe is expanding, to not feel like a n00b, is to have stopped learning.