Dunning-Kruger effect

Your opinion doesn't matter as much as putting in the work.

The Dunning-Kruger effect described by Wiki here is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.

I believe most of us are familiar with the idea of the Dunning-Kruger effect, yet I think that you can take the same effect and add a spin to it.

There are indeed people who grossly underestimate their competence at something, thinking that they are good at or knowledgeable about something they are not.

However, I believe some people will also say that they are not competent at some things and put themselves down. No, I am not talking about imposter syndrome. That is, someone who is good at something even though they believe they aren’t.

I am talking about someone who is bad and also believes that they won’t be good at something.

Some will let their limited knowledge of something keep them from ever getting good in the first place.

Why do you think you have the authority to say that you are good or bad at something that you haven’t given much attention to or spent time understanding its nuances?

If you are insufficient to know what makes someone good at something, then that also means that you are not qualified to call someone unskilled at something, especially yourself.

This all seems to stem from a place of belief in inherent talent. Almost no one has inherent talent at something; it takes hours upon hours to be good at something and longer to be great.

In fact, more often than not, it is the naturally talented ones who end up not training as hard because of their natural talent and end up getting beat by someone who sucked more, to begin with, but put in more work.

So stop focusing on talent, gifts, and natural ability, and start focusing on repetition.

"Quality beats quantity. But quality quantity beats just quality. But in order to get quality, you need quantity. Alex Hormozi.

A bit of a tongue-twister, but obviously quality is better than quantity; you will never get the quality you want without the quantity, the reps, and the raw time spent on the task.

Would you ever talk down to your own children and tell them not to achieve what they want—of course not—then why do you talk down to yourself? Being a son of God, you shouldn't be so harsh to God's kids, even if it is yourself.

Even if you are a nonbeliever, you are a created being who deserves to believe in itself

Treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping, Jordan Peterson.

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