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I love this quote by John Cleese “In order to know how good you are at something requires exactly the same skills as it does to be good at that thing in the fi
by prox 5y ago
I love this quote by John Cleese
“In order to know how good you are at something requires exactly the same skills as it does to be good at that thing in the first place,” Cleese elaborates, “which means — and this is terribly funny — that if you are absolutely no good at something at all, then you lack exactly the skills you need to know that you are absolutely no good at it.”
- mulvya 5y agoOf course, that isn't quite true. If the result or outcome of an actvity is publicly observable or measurable, then a secondhand sense of judgement can be developed.
- anamax 5y agoThere are multiple definitions of "good at {something}". For example, the n men in the last men's 100m Olympics sprint were not the n men with the best sprint technique. (Some were on both lists, but some weren't.)