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Thomas H Jones II

The suck thing about "experience" and learning is, that the more you truly learn/know, the more it reveals what you don't yet know. It often feels like for every one thing I master, I also see that there's at least two more related thing's I've yet to master. It's like a geometric curve of relative-ignorance.

...More, it puts you in a position where you realize "I have expertise, but I am not an expert — and I have no idea what that self-proclaimed expert is because he very clearly has less expertise than I do."

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Niels Bom

This is related to the Dunning-Kruger effect

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Thomas H Jones II

Yes and no. People that display DK tend to never really ever reach a point of "huh... I guess I didn't actually know as much as I thought".