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Broke: Suffering from imposter syndrome because you know just enough to get invited through the door but not enough to feel competent in your role.
Woke: Recognizing that your information will always be imperfect and you’re growing into your role just like your predecessors did. Trying to meet the expectations of your peers through personal development and effort.
Bespoke: You’re a super-spy double agent who has fooled them all! Now you’re going to bring this entire organization down from the inside through the most insidious forms of sabotage.
calm down, Okabe!
I had a huge realization a few days ago and it unlocked a lot mentally for me.
It’s okay to not be a master of anything, because by becoming a master you sacrifice your broadness of knowledge. Keep being yourself, enjoy learning new stuff. Forcing myself into trying to be a master of something made me depressed and unhappy with my life.
You always hear about masters of a domain, but this branch is not fit to everyone and it’s okay. Capitalism and elitism makes it difficult to see that.
The popular idiom is often shortened, making it seem contrary in meaning, but the full phrase is: A Jack of all trades, and master of none, is oftentimes better than a master of one.
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
I know that I don’t know.
damn bro, you didn’t have to call out me like that
So much love for my neurodivergent homies. AuDHD me has an approximate knowledge of things I can’t control. Can I quote the majority of Shrek 2? Ofc. Did I make any effort to do so? No
yet another meme that I found that makes me realize that I’m not alone in this (I rolled low on intelligence but high on wisdom when I was born)
I think it’s also critical thinking skills that most people lack. So when you use critical thinking to analyze a situation you don’t know anything about, they are impressed.
We have a light switch that we had no clue how to operate when we moved into our new house, and it was painful how utterly impossible it was for my mom to figure it out, she tried using it like a normal switch several times and simply gave up…
I then went “well it presumably works somehow, let’s just test all the possible ways there are to interact with a button”, and it turns out you hold the switch in to dim/brighten the lamp alternately. Took me like 2 minutes to figure out.Which explains why people like her struggle so immensely with computers and technology, and man it’s exhausting to deal with.
Lol, I try not to judge people that don’t have that ability to solve problems cause I think people’s brains are just wired differently. But yes, it can be exhausting!
The human brain exists in its current complexity solely to solve problems. If you can’t do that, you’re basically just a weak chimp with alopecia. You’re not neuro divergent, you’re neuro deficient.
Username doesn’t check out lol
Everybody can solve problems. Not everybody is as good at solving the complex ones, though. Those people tend to be valuable in different ways that the complex problem solvers are not. Such as bathing and being polite.
Nah, they probably drink the bathwater or keep getting startled because they forget they’re not in the ocean. They’re good at cleaning my house and mowing my lawn, though.
Also, figuring out a one button light switch is not a complex problem.
You don’t drink bath water? You’re missing out on so many minerals.
I only drink gamer girl bath water out of a crystal fedora.
Jack of All Trades are useful and needed. Cross discipline interaction is where innovations and fun new ideas happen.
That’s pretty valuable. You’re truly smart because:
- you retained valuable information
- you acquired this information instead of spending your time on something else.
Shout out for what I believe approximately to be an Adventure Time reference
indeed it is
That was the funniest bit in the series for me
A jack of all trades, but master of none...
Is often times better than a master of one :)
Oh I should get better at lying
but often times better than a master of one.
Also aids in bolstering intuition and the comprehension of nuance! Knowing “a little about a lot of things” means a very broad perspective which covers a lot of contingencies. It’s a very good position from which to study the big picture, imo!
Edit: with the risk of getting lost in details, from personal experience.
It’s a shame the concept of an “ideas man” has been ridiculed for so long, because that’s precisely what it lets you be good at.
If you can put together a jack of all trades to spawn vaguely sensible ideas, and someone who hyperfocuses on a field of interest, you can just churn out good ideas that are well on the way to being implementable.the problem is that for every ideas man, you need at least 20 people to actually do the work. And that work is a lot more tedious than being the one who comes up with the ideas
and of course, most people can’t tell the difference between a “good ideas man” and a “bad ideas man”, and there are a lot more of the latter
Honestly, this skillset helped me a lot when they threw a QA Project Manager position at me. I had familiarised myself with at least the basics of every process enough to be able to pick up some slack myself when and where needed. Even allowed me to send the team home early at times, when there were tests which I could perform alone (they were tedious, but not extremely complex).
Plus it can lead to a lot of potential optimisation precisely by viewing the top-down perspective and noticing any interactions and dependencies which may be harder to see when in the thick of it, so to speak.
It requires some fiddling around and figuring things out, of course, but it builds upon itself - as I’ve mentioned initially, every new subject I assimilated built upon my intuition, and it snowballed up to the point where I’ve managed to intuit my way through everything which has concerned my career so far.
Yes, yes, yes! We have unfortunately snubbed out auteurship with this mass production insanity, it’s a great loss…
Hey stop sharing my life story
The feeling of being autistic and have ADHD, but people just ASSUME you know what you’re talking about because you speak with confidence and are “the smartest person here”.
I just have ADHD and you don’t even need autism. Just confidence.
the best part of this is that you can just completely bullshit some people, confidently state something absurd and they just go “wow flying fishes evolved from birds? wild”
Broi stop targeting me. This hits wayyy to close to home
Dude I’m the target i swear!
Accuracy through volume of fire
