“The truth is that while we wish we could have real wisdom, we only have the will to gather up a few loose scraps with which to play dress up.” - random redditor
Feelings of intellectual inadequacy never go away, but you learn to realize that almost no one else knows anything either. Then you specialize in something and learn a lot about that thing and become an expert and realize how empty that sensation is. You wonder what the point of knowledge is, today, unless you actually do something with it, and you’re right to wonder about that.
The sad thing is, people do things all the time without the tiniest bit of knowledge. Knowing is pointless without doing. Just focus on the doing, and if you need to learn to do something, then learn to do something. Learning for learning sake is masturbation. It feels great but it amounts to nothing in the end. Don’t wrap your self worth up in knowledge, its an empty pursuit, made even more empty by the ready availability of vast swaths of searchable information from your telephone or any other tiny and inexpensive piece of taiwanese kit.
