Graduated and am working as a junior engineer and I basically feel like I have a mountain of stuff I need to learn, I can see I’ve grown since I started a year ago but man is there still so much for me to learn
I have come to realize a PhD just means you have spent a lot of time thinking about what you are doing.
Doesn’t mean what you are doing is smart really. Just well thought about.
Ah yes the paradox of knowledge. The more you learn, the more you learn how much more there is to learn
Intellectual curiosity is the true barometer; you either thirst to know more, or you’re content with ignorance.
Ah yes. I am truly a thirsty knowledge bitch.
you know it!
Eventually you realize you forget almost as much as you learn, it’s like a bilge pump in a sinking boat. Then you focus on what you want to remember and come to acceptance with that.
This right here. Being content with ignorance s fine with me at the end of the day.
You have to keep going through rehearsal of that old information to keep it from fading. The hard part is stacking new layers on the old layers.
There is a third way!
You thirst to know more but have a soul crushing deficit of self esteem and truly believe you’re incapable of anything more than menial labor. You remain with your thirst, not content with your ignorance, but unable to overcome the self image of “absolute moron with no place in the scientific community who must be narcissistic for even thinking he could be” and so you grow to hate yourself even more because of it!
…Err… Or so my friend says.
You don’t have to go to higher education to pursue knowledge! We have more knowledge available to us freely than any other time on Earth!
And for that matter, you don’t even have to pursue knowledge that will help you make money!
Taking a deep dive in some hobbies using free knowledge could very well enhance your life better than getting the masters degree and the promotion.
Though fair warning if you are too much of a knowledge collector Odin will invade your dreams and you will become a neo-pagan. Or atleast thats what happened to be, I throw shit at him when he does, he laughs.
The more I learn, the better I understand Monthy Pythons song about how sweet it is to be an idot
I’ve forgotten more than I know.
This also tracks for programming.
Tbh in programming that is a healthy attitude to have. If you assume everyone who handles your code in the future, including yourself, is a dumbass, it makes you write more reliable and transparent code.
Hey, the only reason you choose to think that way is… bc it is objectively true.:-|
I was arguing with a engineer two weeks ago about systems. I never met him before. But he has a few drinks and interrupted our conversation. And I nearly lost my shit because of how confidently wrong this guy was.
Then someone pulled me aside and said, “Go easy on the guy. He’s only been in the industry for a year.”
And I did feel bad. But also like, my dude… You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing.
whatever happened to intellectual humility? just because you’re experiencing acute Dunning-Kruger doesn’t mean you have to go raining on somebody else’s parade about how they “know nothing”. Maybe they’re right, maybe you’re an arrogant fool, maybe you really are as stupid as you think you are so you should stfu and let someone else imagine a little. People like you bug. Just because you’ve realized how stupid you are doesn’t mean you need to go shoving it down other’s throats in a desperate bid to salvage your ego.
Best to rest the comment you’re replying to before going on a tirade - this guy drunkenly interrupted OPs conversation to lecture them, it’s a proportionate response, even if maybe not optimal
shut up
You are going to wake up to realizing you know nothing about everything.
I wish I had your optimism about humanity.
This guy sounds like management material.
The more you know, the more you know what you don’t know. People who know nothing often think they know everything.
When you’re smart, you don’t need to learn
That might be the least smart thing anyone has said today.
Me at 34 with no post secondary education: I wish i could afford to goto school
IMO, all three of these statements are correct.
I’ve been this way my whole life. I learn something knew and realize I don’t know shit.
It doesn’t get better, which is the good way. Ever met a self declared highly intelligent person?
I think it’s a general thing with highly capable persons in expert and highly intellectual domains that eventually you kinda figure out what Socrates actually meant with “All I know is that I know nothing”
I feel like that sentiment is easily reached by anyone who is curious and likes to learns, so a lot of people.
If one thinks a lot, likes to learn and, maybe more important, thinks about knowledge and learning things, that person will probably get there.
A certain educational background probably helps but is neither required nor sufficient, IMHO.
I already knew that I and everyone is dumb before my undergrad. Am I smart?
I think you’re more wise than smart?