I assume I’m below average | Derek Sivers
I was young, naive, and plagued by impostor syndrome. I held back instead of exploring more, engaging more deeply, and seeking out more challenges. I allowed myself to be carried along by the current, rather than actively charting my own course. Youth is wasted on the young.
Why pretend to be smart and play it safe? True understanding is rare and ha... See more
Why pretend to be smart and play it safe? True understanding is rare and ha... See more
Murat Demirbas • My Time at MIT
We “overvalue performance,” as one psychologist put it, “and undervalue the self.” We’re afraid of being just okay at things. This is a trap. “For to permit yourself to do only that which you are good at,” writes the legal scholar Tim Wu, “is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment.”
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
I’ve always thought it best to go about life with the slight suspicion that you might be very special, tempered with the humility to realize that you could be wrong