This essay (via Nodwick) is too good to skip and really can’t be excerpted. Suffice it to say that it will explain:
- Why you feel like a fraud when otherwise intelligent and observant people praise you for competence;
- Why there are two types of ignorance; and
- Why only one of those types is a type that you should worry about.
No. Really, it will. I promise. To give a hint, the essay (approvingly) quotes Donald Rumsfeld’s most famous poem (possibly to the author’s bemusement).