· Brittany Ellich · illustration  · 1 min read

My confidence vs. knowledge in a subject over time

A graph showing confidence vs knowledge level over time. Confidence quickly goes up and then slowly comes down while knowledge slowly builds over time.

There’s a curve to my confidence level. It goes up far too quickly compare to the amount of stuff I actually know, and then comes crashing down as I continue to learn.

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