Daily Productive Sharing 1098 - The Expert Beginner

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What is an "expert beginner"? Erik Dietrich provides a detailed explanation and explores its causes:

1. The "expert beginner" phenomenon refers to individuals who, despite mediocre skills, believe themselves to be experts. Many people stop progressing after quickly acquiring some skills, mistakenly thinking they have reached an expert level;
2. Environment and peer feedback are crucial in preventing this mindset. For example, in software development, beginners often experience rapid improvement but, lacking external feedback and interaction, wrongly assume they are experts;
3. To avoid this situation, the best approach is to actively seek external feedback and engage with others, which helps in accurately assessing one’s skill level.

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什么是专家初学者？Erik Dietrich 给出了详尽的解释并且探讨了成因：

1. “专家初学者”现象，即技能平庸却自认为是专家的人。许多人在快速获得一些技能后，往往停滞不前，误认为自己已经达到专家级别。
2. 环境和同伴的反馈对于避免成为专家初学者至关重要。 比如在软件开发领域，初学者通常在快速提升后，因缺乏外部反馈和交流，错认为自己已经是专家；
3. 要想避免这种局面，最好的办法就是积极获得外部反馈，多与其他人交流，这样才能认识到自己真正的位置。

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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

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“Dead Sea Effect” post, which describes a trend whereby the most talented developers tend to be the most marketable and thus the ones most likely to leave for greener pastures when things go a little sour.

the worst part is that you’re going to get way worse before you get better, and it will be a good bit of time before you get back to and surpass your current average.

After a relatively short phase of being a complete initiate, however, one reaches a point where the skill acquisition becomes possible as a solo activity via practice, and the renewed and invigorated acquirer begins to improve quite rapidly as he or she picks “low hanging fruit.”

Once all that fruit is picked, however, the unsustainably rapid pace of improvement levels off somewhat, and further proficiency becomes relatively difficult from there forward.

voluntarily ceasing to improve because of a belief that expert status has been reached and thus further improvement is not possible..

A Competent has too much of a handle on the big picture to confuse himself with an Expert: he knows what he doesn’t know.

Advanced Beginners can break one of two ways: they can move to Competent and start to grasp the big picture and their place in it, or they can ‘graduate’ to Expert Beginner by assuming that they’ve graduated to Expert.

After all, I don’t see anyone around me that’s better than me, and there must be some point of mastery, so I guess I’m there.

The real shame of this is that a couple of inferences that aren’t entirely irrational lead me to a false feeling of achievement and then spur me on to opt out of further improvement.

The Expert Beginner has nowhere to go because progression requires an understanding that he has a lot of work to do, and that is not a readily available conclusion.

The only thing stopping them from taking the natural step into the Expert Beginner stage is a combination of peer review and interaction with the development community at large.

They fail even while convinced that the failure is everyone else’s fault, and the nature of the game is such that blaming others is easy and handy to relieve any cognitive dissonance.