Great post. Some of the best advice I got when I was younger was along the lines of “No one knows your situation better than yourself. Stop deferring and take ownership of your life!”
I still struggle with actually doing this even today though. I often feel its arrogant for me to think for myself rather than just assume the experts know better.
Counterintuitively, it’s often the debates I have with experts (or their writing) where I’m “arrogant” enough to disagree that I usually end up learning the most!
Great post. Some of the best advice I got when I was younger was along the lines of “No one knows your situation better than yourself. Stop deferring and take ownership of your life!”
I still struggle with actually doing this even today though. I often feel its arrogant for me to think for myself rather than just assume the experts know better.
Counterintuitively, it’s often the debates I have with experts (or their writing) where I’m “arrogant” enough to disagree that I usually end up learning the most!