Posted on 02/19/2011 7:10:05 PM PST by dennisw
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OK...
Smart ones don't get convicted. QED.
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Wall Streeters don't get convicted ....
It ain’t lemon juice which produces invisibility, it’s “Takeela”. In my youth I was sometimes invisible for hours.
I supervised a guy with vast quantities of unjustifiable self-esteem. He was arrogant, untrainable, a chronic liar and a thief. He was and incompetent employee and an even worse thief.
Ten years after I fired him for theft, I saw him working behind the counter at McDonalds. No doubt, he thinks he’s the best employee McDonalds has ever had.
The “bullet-proof” magic is actually pretty common. The Ghost Dancer Indians in 1890s America and the Boxers in China around the same time believed the same thing, among others around the world.
It always turned out the evil white man’s bullets hadn’t got the news.
“Im going to try that lemon juice trick. I think maybe either he didnt rub it all over his face or he didnt say the magic words. Invisibility is one of my most prized assets.”
Don’t forget that the lemon juice might not have been entirely fresh, either. Or he might have used lemons that were on the verge of spoiling, or maybe they weren’t ripe enough. I suspect this lemon juice thing might be a tad trickier than it appears on its face.
Level 1 Unconscious Incompetence
(You Don’t Know that You Don’t Know)
Level 2 Conscious Incompetence
(You Know that You Don’t Know)
Level 3 Conscious Competence
(You Know that You Know)
Level 4 Unconscious Competence
(You Don’t Know that You Know It Just Seems Easy!)
Interesting. Sounds like it merits a read.
B I N G O !!!!!!
One reason I loved Simon so much was that he was absolutely honest with those contestants. Maybe part of the problem is that people of marginal abilities are praised, rather than being instructed on how to self-assess and thus determine how to do things better. (Although with singing, if a person can't carry a tune, no amount of coaching is going to help.)
This is the problem that coaches have all the time.
Overconfidence. The belief that you can’t be beaten or replaced.
In competitive athletics, unlike academia, one eventually discovers his true abilities, or lack thereof.
I was constantly fighting the urge to tell my close friend that his kid just wasn’t that good (he thought his kid was a superstar who was being shafted by the coach.) Eventually his kid quit the basketball team because he wasn’t starting. His dad, my friend, had urged him to quit. The ironic thing is, due to injuries from other players, his kid would have ended up starting. So my friend shafted his own child.
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