I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't pretend I know everything.
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.