🪾 intellectual laziness is deceiving

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• relevant notes ignorance
  • Dunning-Kruger effect
  • atomic note intellectual laziness is deceiving
    • Deceiving because it might feel more comfortable
    • Finding out one was wrong, or that there is a sea of new knowledge makes one look at oneself
    • reference notes HTSN Introduction 1 §8
      • How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens
    • literature notes uninterested or ungifted students don’t wish for better tools
      • those who lack knowledge don’t need better tools, as they don’t miss them
      • they will have less trouble with imposter syndrome, because they don’t doubt their abilities collapsed:: true
        • they lack the skill to see their own limitations
      • They think they are good researchers collapsed:: true
        • again, they lack the skill to know better
    • fleeting notes lack of knowledge feels confortable
      • Fascinating: Dunning-Kruger effect
        • better to not know? Just like in the Matrix
          • ignorance is bliss
      • Only when somebody understands what they don’t know can they start having an informed decision collapsed:: true
        • it is often not a matter of knowledge but also of will and/or interest. collapsed:: true
          • They don’t know, and don’t want to know collapsed:: true
            • comfortable in their ignorance collapsed:: true
              • even research is easier if you don’t notice the nuances collapsed:: true
                • it is dangerous to trust these kind of researchers, they will sound confident, but they lack the skill to deliver
              • people like to be comfortable collapsed:: true
                • can be a trap, and look enticing