Should I be intimidated by other peoples’ ability?
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George Bevis, CEO, CanDo
over 6 months ago
Should I be intimidated by other peoples’ ability?
Even the people who would seem, to an outsider's lens, to be the absolute masters in any context, when you work with them really, really close up, you realise they're still winging it too and they would disagree with each other on lots of questions. And they're not that good. So the curve of expertise seems incredibly steep, but at some point it levels off and with much, much more experience, you don't get that much better, and you can be very, very celebrated without necessarily being that much better than you were with a lot less experience. And any stages before that, you can feel like these people must be so much more remarkably capable and all the rest of it than you, but actually, I don't think that is always true.
Even the people who would seem, to an outsider's lens, to be the absolute masters in any context, when you work with them really, really close up, you realise they're still winging it too and they would disagree with each other on lots of questions. And they're not that good. So the curve of expertise seems incredibly steep, but at some point it levels off and with much, much more experience, you don't get that much better, and you can be very, very celebrated without necessarily being that much better than you were with a lot less experience. And any stages before that, you can feel like these people must be so much more remarkably capable and all the rest of it than you, but actually, I don't think that is always true.