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I agree. I also wonder if many of the great programmers would consider themselves great?
by rbsn 13y ago
I agree. I also wonder if many of the great programmers would consider themselves great?
- jamesbritt 13y agoProbably not. A certain hubris, as Mr. Wall has noted, is a Good Thing, but so is some amount of discontent or feeling that you've still a lot to learn. I'm sure the Dunning-Kruger effect comes into play here. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect Thinking you're great before you are, in fact, great, will surely hold you back.
- w_t_payne 13y agoYou need to think about sampling as well.. how good (you think) you are depends a lot on who you are comparing yourself to. Like those who were top of their class in school ... then went to a top-flight university and were shocked to find out that they were struggling at the bottom of their new peer-group. It is easy to think that you are the bees' knees when you are surrounded by jaded, cynical and burnt-out engineers, and you still have the energy and naive optimism of youth.