Gunner Asch on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:56:36 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:32:41 -0500, Richard
wrote:

Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people
will:

1. tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
4. recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, /if/
they are exposed to training for that skill.

^5 Richard. Well stated!

Introspection is a marvelous thing. Im forced to do it regularly and I
think it makes me a better person for it. Though it is a bitter taste.

There is a statement by Aristotle that the happiness is not
"pleasure" but comes from knowing that one is living a "good life"
I.e., a life of excellence. Which does require that one regularly ask
of oneself "Am I doing the best which I am capable of doing?"
To paraphrase Socrates: The unexamined life may not be worth
living, but you do have a lot more free time.


--
pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."