As long as we’re going off on tangents, does anyone know a name for the bias where Oxonians look like they’re doing things effortlessly?
I suspect the following is a common psychological failure mode, and I want a term to refer to it:
See someone doing something amazing and making it look easy
Try to do something similar (or imagine trying to)
Realize (or assume) that it’s hard and will take a lot of work
Conclude that because it’s easy for the other person and hard for you, you must be bad at it (when actually it’s hard for the other person too, but you just don’t see the work that they put into it)
Since you’ve concluded that it’s hard and you’re bad at it, you give up
As long as we’re going off on tangents, does anyone know a name for the bias where Oxonians look like they’re doing things effortlessly?
I suspect the following is a common psychological failure mode, and I want a term to refer to it:
See someone doing something amazing and making it look easy
Try to do something similar (or imagine trying to)
Realize (or assume) that it’s hard and will take a lot of work
Conclude that because it’s easy for the other person and hard for you, you must be bad at it (when actually it’s hard for the other person too, but you just don’t see the work that they put into it)
Since you’ve concluded that it’s hard and you’re bad at it, you give up