Why dumb people think they are smart and smart people think there is a lot to learn?

When you first time picks a skill you love, you tried to get all the knowledge you could get at that time. You feel that’s easy; you could do that easily and already mastered it.

But when you move deeper into it, you realize that there is a lot to learn.

This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect (aka. why dumb people think they are smart and smart people think there is a lot to learn) at a point in time, everyone has experienced it.

When the realization hits you have 2 choices either to quit and think you are the best at it (the reality is that you are dumb) or study deeper into it feeling you are dumb, but you make progress and grow. By learning this principle, you could learn the mentality of people giving up and why consistent people, succeed in it.

Imagine you started learning about economics, read some articles, watched Economics Explained (YouTube channel) videos, and learned about factors. After 2-3 days, you will be like ok! Now I know everything.

It's damn simple, so many economists are just making predictions nothing fancy, and it's not worthwhile learning. But you have experienced only the tip of the iceberg.

And if you stop there, you won't be able to understand, what economists do.

My friend has a saying “You need a whole life to excel in a particular field”. I mean that’s why there are departments in the organization that do a particular job properly.

Consider this, if you try something new, do it for at least 21 days to get a full understanding of it and then make your judgments to continue or not.

Consistency is key!