Egotistical people almost entirely just believe they do.
The few people who do know what they’re doing almost always do so because they love it, not because it’s their job. Expertise requires genuine interest, otherwise you’ll just memorize the motions without really knowing what you’re doing.
A good, experienced carpenter knows how to make a shelf, they know it inside and out, to the point only another experienced carpenter would be able to perceive the imperfections the creator does. They would continue to craft regardless of employment. That is knowing what you’re doing.
I feel a great swell of pity for the rare wage slaves that take the same degree of ownership about their workplace workflows. They’re walking corpses, their spark is extinguished.
Very few people know what they’re doing.
Egotistical people almost entirely just believe they do.
The few people who do know what they’re doing almost always do so because they love it, not because it’s their job. Expertise requires genuine interest, otherwise you’ll just memorize the motions without really knowing what you’re doing.
A good, experienced carpenter knows how to make a shelf, they know it inside and out, to the point only another experienced carpenter would be able to perceive the imperfections the creator does. They would continue to craft regardless of employment. That is knowing what you’re doing.
I feel a great swell of pity for the rare wage slaves that take the same degree of ownership about their workplace workflows. They’re walking corpses, their spark is extinguished.
I hate the fact that I must agree with you, as I see the same things. I have however, been working on my feelings towards the “rare wage slaves”.
It ceased to be pity sometime along the way, and instead became angry indignation.
That could have been you or I, but for a few quirks of genetics and having had access to enough resources such as nutrition or quality education.
Equally rare is the person who is innately that way, I feel. They are molded into that, deliberately.
Still trying to work out meaningful ways to help besides talking to them at the workplaces and pivoting careers towards social work.
But it’s so little against so much.