Love this quote. Learning is for life. And I can laugh at the know-it-alls; they don't bother me. I realize I know only a little.
I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
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Have you watched many of his old videos?
Some are humbly hilarious
His way of saying basically you are thinking about it wrong is great
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My old boss, the man who gave me my 1st real chance, told me, "There is this huge body of knowledge out there..." as he opened his arms to the sky. I had no clue what John was talking about. I'm slow that way.
Kestas
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I feel compelled to present this graph showing the Dunning-Kruger effect. It sounds like you are in the valley of despair working your way to enlightenment, unlike some people who confidently talk about things they know nothing about.
So many seem use their title, degree, whatever, to belittle and disrespect other's thoughts. I kinda feel sorry for them.
We all have a piece of the puzzle.
I fell off the cliff and hit my head
I think that first peak usually comes in one’s early twenties. Especially, if one went to college.
These days, you also need to question the source of your information, BITOG excepted?
Richard Feynman was one of the cleverest men to have ever lived so not remotely dumb intellectually. What he meant by that quotation was he was dumb in terms of the extent of his knowledge. That's why the quotation applies to us all because there will always be more knowledge to acquire regardless of our intelligence or current knowledge.
Never being a "know it all" has paid off handsomely for me. Both career wise and financially.
"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so."
Often misattributed to Mark Twain but true nonetheless.
Often misattributed to Mark Twain but true nonetheless.
Kestas
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One side note. Sometimes while arguing with some dimwit about a technical issue that one has vast knowledge about (in my case it would be someone trying to argue with me about metallurgy), in exasperation they ask you to cite a source. I have a lot of stuff in my head that I've learned in my life over the decades, and I'll be darned if I can remember the title of the book or engineering journal I learned it from.
I once had a guy tell me that 192.168.1.0/24 is not the same as 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0. I just told him to write it that we he wanted and left it at that. No interest in explaining it to someone that is that unwilling to be even be curious enough to ask why.
