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Mara Wilson@marawilson.bsky.social |
Whether it’s at college or a difficult job, I feel like everybody needs to have that moment in their young adulthood where they realize “oh man, I actually don’t know very much at all”
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gamera obscura
@ohrobin.bsky.social
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Or every day of adulthood until my deathbed.
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Marc L
@marclivolsi.bsky.social
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And later in life as well! Even those with high expertise need to recognize that there are also vast spans of ignorance outside of that.
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SigmundFrood
@sigmundfrood.bsky.social
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Have this moment often, embrace it. Wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.
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cdpositive
@cdpositive.bsky.social
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And hold on to that thought for the rest of their lives! As my father said (often!), "You don't get old until you stop learning."
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Zeb Larson
@zeblarson.bsky.social
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I’d say go to grad school for this, but a percentage of those folks go absolutely the wrong way with it and conclude that all of life is a grad seminar and they’re here to educate the rest of us.
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"Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They)
@comfortingmoo.online
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Switching from kitchen career to work from home has been a lot of these.
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Tiffany (parentheses overuser)
@tiffanyclay.dev
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I remember EXACTLY where I was when this moment came up for me!
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Schroeder
@disneyschroeder.bsky.social
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Most, if not all of my jobs, including my current one, qualify as this on some level, no matter how long I am employed at the job or how good I seem to get at it
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arcadus (they/them) 🇵🇸
@imdmingyour.mom
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The earlier the better. It's quite liberating to acknowledge that we don't actually know very much and there is much to learn
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Mayor of Nowheresville
@thekasey.bsky.social
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Funny I didn’t have mine until middle age. I was soooo full of piss and vinegar in my young adulthood. I fucking knew everything and I saw shit most people only dream about. Then I settled down and well, settled.
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CJ Lemire
@cjlemire.bsky.social
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Alas, the smarter one is the more likely one is to have that realization. Below a certain threshold it just doesn't register.
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Punk's Not Dead It's Passed Out
@punksnotdead.bsky.social
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When "All I know is that I don't know nothin' " really sets in as a reality.
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Holly Hundreds
@moreliketallwoman.bsky.social
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"dang i guess i'm just some asshole" paired with a dose of sonder is the PB&J of character growth
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pophouse
@pophouse.bsky.social
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college taught me a lot and gave me confidence in my knowledge grad school disabused me of those notions
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Skip “Skippy” Skipperson
@yippyskippy.bsky.social
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I get that feeling every time I watch Jeopardy!
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slacey AKA MC Griddle
@slacey.net
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1000% happened to me a semester into grad school. got a 25% on a test and was in shock. best thing that could’ve happened to my pompous ass
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Clint
@eaglepursuit.bsky.social
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Like, every other day, it's just, "I have to do what now? Nobody prepared me for this. Better figure it out and muck my way through it."
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Butcher Pete
@butcherpete.bsky.social
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It's a sort of vertigo. The more you know, the less you know. I keep opening doors on stuff I had no idea even existed. Oh, that's something else I know nothing about.
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Joe
@joejin.bsky.social
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Anything that deserves to be called knowledge belongs to one or more domains where everyone remains a beginner.
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Stiney
@stiney.bsky.social
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Something that helped me recently was, “oh, *nobody* really has it better together than me.” Actual light bulb moment and it was such a relief. None of us know very much at all and we’re all muddling along doing our best.
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Gaknar
@gaknar.bsky.social
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Graduate school is basically a Total Perspective Vortex.
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turn the page
@braceletwitch.bsky.social
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another important moment: oh, there are no Official Adults. we are just all making it up. this is it.
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Macdoug
@macdoug.com
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Important breakout stage of the Dunning-Krueger containment field
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Johnny at Home
@johnnysthoughts.bsky.social
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When I told my grandfather I was going into engineering he sat me down and gave me a Talk about how I should take the time to learn how my designs would affect the people in manufacturing, install, service, end-use, and repair, or else I had no business being an engineer. Such valuable advice.
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Democracy Demands Transparency
@s3friedman.bsky.social
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Idealism will only carry young people only so far. As an idealist, I learned that lesson the hard way.
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Erika Fawcett
@krystolla.bsky.social
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Somewhere around middle age you get the fun followup: “nobody knows as much as I thought they did.”
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Eric The Chipher
@ericthechiper.bsky.social
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Socrates was on to something when he said the greatest wisdom lies in the knowledge that we know nothing. Confronting our own ignorance is the door the knowledge. Once you know you don't know you can start learning.
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Don Fanucci
@porksoldier.bsky.social
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It's never at college
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Darren Simmons
@darrensimmons.bsky.social
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This is a weekly experience for me, if not more frequent. A side effect, perhaps, of being in academia.
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PeterS
@paradiddletriplets.bsky.social
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comes right after you've looked at clouds from both sides, i believe
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PNW Mama
@julie-ann.bsky.social
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I’m 58 and still learning. I love that!
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
@bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social
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If you're looking to have that feeling, allow me to recommend having children. A living monument to all the shit their parents do & don't know
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The Masked Donut
@themaskeddonut.bsky.social
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When you're a kid, you know nothing. It's all exciting an new. When you're a teenager you know EVERYTHING! How can no one else see this! That stage in adulthood you describe is very important, because it makes you work harder to try and at least know SOME things as well as possible...
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Michael
@armavirumqaecano.bsky.social
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Graduate school and also knowing a single mother at the same time basically revealed how little I know about the world and I should just shut up and observe other people who are working it out better than me
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bodhidave
@bodhidave.bsky.social
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The Zen monk Fayan was on his pilgrimage, and he put up at a temple to stay overnight during some bad weather. The temple priest asked him what the purpose of pilgrimage was. Fayan told him, "I don't know." The priest said, "Not knowing is closest to it." Fayan had an awakening. 🧡 🙏 🙂
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Jess Zimmerman
@jesszimmerman.com
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if they’re lucky
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Dwain Dowland
@runningcloud.bsky.social
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⚔️𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍⚔️
@ubergreen.bsky.social
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see also: everyone should lose a fight and also win a fight at some point
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Totally Finebaum
@butpawwwlll.bsky.social
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This is why the concept of working as a collective to solve problems is so important! If my single use bootstrap falls apart, I want to have people in my life with some cobbler training and repay them with spreadsheet/PPT work (This is a fair exchange, I'm not taking questions).
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Kara Jane Adams
@ghostinexile.bsky.social
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Everybody is ignorant of something. Some like me are ignorant of most things. The trick I find is to meet it head on and not attempt to bluff it out.
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Poetgrrl
@poetgrrl.bsky.social
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Honestly, I didn't figure that until recently, and I've long left young adulthood. 😳
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Jackdaw
@struttingjackdaw.bsky.social
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It's a rite of passage
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imtiredthatisall
@imtiredthatisall.lol
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oh is it just young adulthood i still feel this way often.
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@piening4thefjords.bsky.social
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I'm 58 and I still feel that way.
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Theory of Negativity
@markbrophy.bsky.social
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I've been having that moment every day since young adulthood
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PolyChrome
@jenstone.bsky.social
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Elder Gen X here… it’s still very much happening 😳
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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The more I know, the more I realize I don't know very much.
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@illimij.bsky.social
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While it's a message that doesn't sell well with parents, for understandable reasons, I used to say at admissions open-houses that I view the education I provide as an act of faith. I hope I am planting a seed of life-long learning.
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Holly Peppers
@hollypeppers.bsky.social
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Freshman year of college for me. I was one of the smartest people in a very small high school. Then I went to college and realized "Hoo Boy! I am not as smart as I thought I was."
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Dillon (6 Sided Games)
@6sidedgames.bsky.social
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Uh... What if I hit that as a young teen because my stepdad was that much smarter than me?
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Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
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I once got a job I was super underqualified for and it was awesome in so many ways.
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Wendel
@wendelschwab.bsky.social
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This was grad school for me.
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James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social
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I was a philosophy major. Pretty much my whole academic career was me realizing I actually don't know very much at all.
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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot
@sheepbop.bsky.social
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So says Joni Mitchell
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Johnnnn
@johnnewhouse.bsky.social
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My freshman year of college. Realizing there’s always someone smarter was so good for me
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GrokMeAmadeus
@grokmeamadeus.bsky.social
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I’m sad I didn’t have one of those about shitty toxic masculinity stuff that was making me unhappy until I was 28. I called it the Marty McFly Moment.
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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak
@blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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YES. I tried to describe it once as that moment the universe just sorta rips your heart out, and you realize you’ve earned none of the confidence you had as a teenager.
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