The bar on competency is tragically low. And yet the world revolves.
You buried the lede. This entire post (and most of our effort, I believe) should be in pursuit of figuring out how to raise the sanity waterline (and/or “total competency sum”) of conscious entities, not about estimating one’s own competency higher.
Some posts can focus on raising the sanity waterline. Other posts can be motivational and targeted at people’s incorrect self-assessments. Note that successfully doing the latter is often quite a good way of making people achieve better outcomes.
Raising the sanity waterline is an instrumental goal. A deeper goal is “have more [effective mindpower] applied where it is needed”. This can be achieved by increasing the [effective mindpower] of each person, or by routing people with already-high [effective mindpower] to more important and difficult work. To do the latter without an authoritarian system (which would probably fail anyway), we need people with high [effective mindpower] to be aware of this so that they can look for important and difficult work. The OP makes progress in the area of “increasing the accuracy of beliefs about one’s capabilities”.
You buried the lede. This entire post (and most of our effort, I believe) should be in pursuit of figuring out how to raise the sanity waterline (and/or “total competency sum”) of conscious entities, not about estimating one’s own competency higher.
Some posts can focus on raising the sanity waterline. Other posts can be motivational and targeted at people’s incorrect self-assessments. Note that successfully doing the latter is often quite a good way of making people achieve better outcomes.
Raising the sanity waterline is an instrumental goal. A deeper goal is “have more [effective mindpower] applied where it is needed”. This can be achieved by increasing the [effective mindpower] of each person, or by routing people with already-high [effective mindpower] to more important and difficult work. To do the latter without an authoritarian system (which would probably fail anyway), we need people with high [effective mindpower] to be aware of this so that they can look for important and difficult work. The OP makes progress in the area of “increasing the accuracy of beliefs about one’s capabilities”.