“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

It’s a type of cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence in it. This is why a person, despite his lack of knowledge or experience in a specific domain, can still think he’s amazing at it.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

You are a student of life for life. Your knowledge is expanding, but so is your ignorance, for as you continue to learn, there will always be so much more for you to further explore. Why you should create your own map:<ul><li>It helps you identify your knowledge gaps in the areas that actually matter to you. </li><li>It highlights your strengths. The closer you are to mastery, the more strengths you have in the specific area of discussion.</li><li>It gives you a holistic view of where you stand today so you can phase out the steps for what’s ahead. </li></ul>

The Expanding Map of Knowledge and Ignorance

"The scientific revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The greatest discovery that launched the scientific revolution was the discovery that humans do not know the answers to their most important questions."

“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”

You become wiser as you embrace your own ignorance and diminish that gap, 
as you develop yourself into a lifelong self-learner, and as you begin to 
see yourself as a student of life for life. And how do you do that? You 
create your own map of knowledge and ignorance. Create your own map, fill 
its empty spaces with all the knowledge of what you know, and identify all 
that you don’t.

YUVAL NOAH HARARI

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