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I think growing up isn't when you stop feeling like you're 19, it's the specific point in everybody's life when you realize that nobody else is "more grownup" t
by ryandvm 2y ago
I think growing up isn't when you stop feeling like you're 19, it's the specific point in everybody's life when you realize that nobody else is "more grownup" than you. That you too could be a contributor to this world if only you'd try.
I feel like it was embarrassingly late in life when I stopped thinking that the people running things were smarter, more mature, and just generally better than me. It turns out there are dipshits and geniuses and crooks and saints all the way up and down the whole thing. They are not grownups, they are just the people without imposter syndrome.
- tombert 2y agoI know what you mean. When I first learned how to program, "web frameworks" like Ruby on Rails and Django and whatnot seemed like magic, and that those required a special kind of intelligence to do. Then I learned how those frameworks worked, built three of my own, and realized that while they're still kind of cool, they're not magic. I've repeated the same process with finance, formal mathematics, cooking, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Most things aren't actually that hard if you sit down and force yourself to learn them. At this point, I start with the assumption "no one is smarter than me". This is very obviously not true, I'm not a hyper-genius or anything, but I think it's a good mentality to have when learning new stuff. If no one is smarter than me, then I should be able to grok most things if I spend enough time with them.