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Perception
There’s a less obvious force that clouds our vision of our abilities: a deficit in metacognitive skill, the ability to think about our thinking. Lacking competence can leave us blind to our own incompetence.
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- We fail to see, or refuse to accept, that any attempt to bring our ideas into concrete reality must inevitably fall short of our dreams, no matter how brilliantly we succeed in carrying things off—because reality, unlike fantasy, is a realm in which we don’t have limitless control, and can’t possibly hope to meet our perfectionist standards. Someth... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg and added
Our earliest ability to think about the possible is in place well before we have a concept of who we are, what we value, and what talents, abilities, or potential we bring to bear in the service of our bigger plans and goals. From the start of life, assessments of what is possible are instrumental in guiding actions and decisions; they tell us whet
... See morefrom How Children Learn to Transcend Limits: Developmental Pathways to Possibility Beliefs by Tamar Kushnir
Keely Adler added