"I know what I am doing" attitude.

"StudyStudyStudy" (jesterjin)
12/06/2016 at 15:01 • Filed to: None

I don’t know why I let it bother me, but it really does. I feel like when someone asks you a question and your response is “I know what I am doing” you need to pause for a second and think about why they are asking you that question.

First time I saw it and fully recognized it was when the kid caught his miata on fire tried to put it out and caught most of his garage on fire then had to run and get a hose to put it all out. Someone suggested he check the float level, tighten the bolt/nut holding the wires to his battery, and not use an electric pump, his response was “I know what I’m doing.”I think a more humble response would be in order when you just displayed your prowess and fire starting ability.

I get it. As someone who has a build thread, I can see how someone telling you how to spend your money can potentially be irritating. Generally though if someone chimes in with advice I take time to at least search on the topic. Takes about 30 seconds, if there are lots of hits then more searching commences and I can make my own opinion on the matter or bookmark it or even ask the person why they think it is neccessary.

I am firmly under the belief that the moment you think you know everything is the moment that you stop learning and growing, with exceptions to real experts, but I feel real experts still constantly search for new approaches.

Long and short of it, I’m venting, just had a wonderful exchange. Pointed out the installation of a flawed item, and it eventually ended with him suggesting I buy him the parts (because I am made of money), that I was seeking attention, that I was all-knowing (sarcastic), etc etc etc.

Anyone else encounter such situations?

DISCUSSION (15)

Mercedes Streeter > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 15:10

I feel like when someone asks you a question and your response is “I know what I am doing” you need to pause for a second and think about why they are asking you that question.

Depends on who is asking. If the question asker is either of my parents, they are by default, wrong.

For example: We were driving home from Georgia, going through the TN mountains. It was a bit windy, but absolutely nothing that would affect our ability to go the speed limit. In fact, I decided “if a large semi can comfortably cruise the speed limit, I will too”. But that didn’t stop her from screaming “SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!!!” entering into every curve. Uh, sure, let me stop to a crawl on this 6% grade while semis are doing double the speed you want me to go.

Mind you, she has night-blindness, so...

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 15:16

There seems to be a curve. This curve peaks at about 10% of a subject and drops off shortly after. I’m going to try to make a chart because I can’t be arsed enough to graph it and post the picture.

How much you know-How much you think you know

1-10

4-50

10-100

15-20

40-25

80-50

99-45

Because the experts in a field know that there is SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, that is going to screw up their information. Like a Corvair expert just knows that the moment when they say GM never produced a flat 8 Corvair powered car that someone is gonna come up with a picture of some internal project of exactly that.

StudyStudyStudy > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
12/06/2016 at 15:27

That is so true, I mean any PhD knows that to get their PhD they have to contribute something new to the field, that means their field is constantly changing, but your average college student who takes the 101 class thinks he understands the whole depth and breath of the subject.

That “graph” is so on point!

Die-Trying > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 15:28

love the way the kid tries to blow out the flames, like its a birthday cake.........make a wish.......

Berang > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 15:33

Sometimes the people making the suggestions are the ones who don’t know that much trying to look smart though. It can go both ways.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 15:50

Three words:

fire

extinguisher

dumbass

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 16:08

The Dunning-Kruger effect is real (and fucking terrifying, in reality).

Rykilla303 > StudyStudyStudy
12/06/2016 at 16:30

There needs to be a happy medium where a person can think “i appreciate the concern... but i want to do it this way. If it blows up in my face, that’s on me.”

StudyStudyStudy > Die-Trying
12/06/2016 at 16:36

“I wish I knew gas caught on fire...”

StudyStudyStudy > Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
12/06/2016 at 16:40

Learned something new today, and yes, in some fields like medicine that sounds terrifying!