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Fran Soto's avatar

Dunning-Kruger -> Impostor -> Confidence -> Mastery

We all dream of becoming the ones creating and advancing any field, but we can't reach it without going through all the steps.

It's also related to the concept of the Adjacent Possible (read about it from Cal Newport's "So good they can't ignore you", but the concept comes from Stuart Kauffman). It's about operating in the space just at the edge of your current skills.

In the beginning, the edge of your current skills is the normal skills for someone else. But when you keep advancing those levels, the edge can be state of the art for that field.

Great article, Milan. It was great to learn some of these concepts that I didn't know about!

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Dr Milan Milanović's avatar

Thank you, Fran! Yes, that concept has many names, such as the “Goldilocks rule”.

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