Why not both? Dunning-Kruger conveys an inaccurately high level of confidence, while with imposter syndrome you underrate your comparative level of expertise.
So if you have both, that means that you have an inaccurately high assessment of your expertise, and you inaccurately rate the level of expertise of your peers too highly.
In other words, your peers are all a bunch of Dunning-Kruger dunces also.
At this point I could make a snide comment about project management, but ... oops, I guess I already did. ^_^;
But less flippantly, I really don't think folks have really figured out project management in general. If we'd have figured it out, then it wouldn't be the case that a good PM could get completely terrible results with a different team. We'd have figured out how to fix the problems in general. But instead... we just haven't.
Really I think what I've learned over the years is that as long as I keep my mind open to the idea that I might be wrong, I can learn an enormous amount from my own research and experience. I feel like a lot of resources imply that is impossible, and that without a teacher you're always going to be an idiot pretending to be an expert or worse a jerk with no clue bossing other people around... when really, if you're humble, studious, and careful you are unlikely to do either of those things, at least not for long.
Maybe they balance each other out?
ReplyDeleteNo, that would be a silly idea. Forget I said anything.
If you have to question it... it's not the second.
ReplyDeleteWhy not both? Dunning-Kruger conveys an inaccurately high level of confidence, while with imposter syndrome you underrate your comparative level of expertise.
ReplyDeleteSo if you have both, that means that you have an inaccurately high assessment of your expertise, and you inaccurately rate the level of expertise of your peers too highly.
In other words, your peers are all a bunch of Dunning-Kruger dunces also.
At this point I could make a snide comment about project management, but ... oops, I guess I already did. ^_^;
But less flippantly, I really don't think folks have really figured out project management in general. If we'd have figured it out, then it wouldn't be the case that a good PM could get completely terrible results with a different team. We'd have figured out how to fix the problems in general. But instead... we just haven't.
Really I think what I've learned over the years is that as long as I keep my mind open to the idea that I might be wrong, I can learn an enormous amount from my own research and experience. I feel like a lot of resources imply that is impossible, and that without a teacher you're always going to be an idiot pretending to be an expert or worse a jerk with no clue bossing other people around... when really, if you're humble, studious, and careful you are unlikely to do either of those things, at least not for long.
ReplyDeleteGET OUT OF MY HEAD WILLIAM ;)
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